KABUL (SW): Assadullah Haneef Balkhi, minister for education, has said insecurity and a number of other issues have created hurdles in the promotion of education, but the national strategy for improving literacy rate has been prepared.
He said the vice president and chairman of the national committee for literacy have inked the deal in this regard. Addressing the gathering, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, second vice president, said while referring to the Human Rights Watch’s latest report that Afghanistan remains in the list of countries with a large number of the population deprived of education.
The Human Rights Watch noted in its fresh report that the proportion of students who are girls is now falling in parts of the country. It underlined that 3.5 million children are out of school, and 85 percent of them are girls.
The 132-page report, “I Won’t Be a Doctor, and One Day You’ll Be Sick: Girls’ Access to Education in Afghanistan,” has marked growing insecurity, poverty, and displacement as the main factors contributing to dropouts and falling rates of enrolments, particularly of girls in schools across Afghanistan.
Sarwar Danish expressed fears if impediments hindering Afghans from seeking education are not removed, all gains in this regard would be lost. He urged the private sector to play its due role for improving the level of literacy.
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