Kathmandu. Minister for Education, Science and Technology Sasmit Pokharel has pledged to forward an action plan to declare Madhes province fully literate within next two years.
Receiving the report submitted by the task force on literacy, Minister Pokharel said that the government would adopt short-term and long-term strategies to make 833,171 illiterate people of Madhes province literate.
He made it clear that works would be forwarded from two aspects—policy-level and legal reforms as well as immediate implementation to address the numbers. Stating that the number of illiterates would not increase in the country as the enrollment rate is high across the country, Minister Pokharel pointed out the problem of dropout among students as the main challenge.
He said the ministry would play an effective role to prevent the students from becoming illiterate again.
“We need to take concrete steps to reduce the number of 833,171 cases seen in Madhes Province and prevent the recurrence of illiteracy in the future,” Minister Pokharel said. The first priority will be policy and legal reforms, while the second priority will be to increase literacy immediately through short-term and medium-term plans.
The government and ministry will always be committed to declare Madhes Province fully literate within one to two years. For this, we are ready to collaborate with the state and local levels in policy and programmatic way. ’
He said that the federal government was committed to make the ‘person-to-person’ learning method suggested by the task force and the programs to be run through the community learning center effective to solve the immediate problem.
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