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ISLAMABAD, Aug 20 (APP): National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) is working for the promotion of non-formal education and healthcare in 134 districts across the country including erstwhile FATA, Gilgit Baltistan, and Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK), providing people with easy access to education and health facilities.
Director General NCHD Hassan Baig said that the Commission had a strong infrastructure at the grass root level covering 114 districts all over the country. He said that NCHD has contributed in providing literacy to 3.96 million since its inception and providing education to 335,164 children in NCHD funded 5,949 Feeder Schools in the remote areas to the marginalised group. He said that the Commission is providing an equal education opportunity in the remote areas as the basic right of all the citizens of the country, adding that it is providing free and compulsory education to the poor.
He said that government can utilise the large human resources of the NCHD especially the volunteer’s force of 36,000 volunteers for an awareness campaign regarding COVID19 in the country.
In collaboration with JICA we had launched a model of non-formal School system where 20 schools are functional in order to provide education to children of ages 10-14 who could neither be admitted to primary school nor come under adult literacy.
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