Women education in Pakistan has a very ugly picture of
illiteracy in Pakistan. Although government have announced many pragmas to
promote women literacy but they fail to execute our work, words in to the
reality because of many obstacles like culture, social, political etc. Official statistics which is published by
the Ministry of Pakistan showing a distressed picture of education overall
especially for girls. In Pakistan’s literacy rate is 46 % in which girls are
just 26 % literate.
They overall literacy rate at 26 per cent and the rate for girls and women at 12 per cent. There are 163,000 primary schools in Pakistan, of which merely 40,000 cater to girls. Of these, 15,000 are in Punjab Province, 13,000 in Sind, 8,000 in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and 4,000 in Baluchistan.
They overall literacy rate at 26 per cent and the rate for girls and women at 12 per cent. There are 163,000 primary schools in Pakistan, of which merely 40,000 cater to girls. Of these, 15,000 are in Punjab Province, 13,000 in Sind, 8,000 in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and 4,000 in Baluchistan.
Similarly, out of a total 14,000 lower secondary schools and
10,000 higher secondary schools, 5,000 and 3,000 respectively are for girls, in
the same decreasing proportions as above in the four provinces. There are
around 250 girls colleges, and two medical colleges for women in the public
sector of 125 districts. Some 7 million girls under 10 go to primary schools,
5.4 million between 10 and 14 attend lower secondary school, and 3 million go
to higher secondary schools. About 1.5 million and 0.5 million girls
respectively go to higher secondary schools/colleges and universities.
The cultural and social hurdles are greater in rural areas
for women. Especially in northern tribal areas education for girls totally
prohibited. The education for women in N.W.F.P is worst where female literacy
rate is fall in between 3 to 8 %. Some government organization are trying to
open school in these areas but some land lords which are related those parties
who are ruling the country that political members does not want to promote
education and government does not take any action against them because they one
of them.
Poverty is the biggest issue for Pakistani girl’s education
according to UNCIEF, 17.6 % Pakistani children are working for families in the
field of work. In Big cities like Lahore. Islamabad, Karachi, Gujranwala,
Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Quetta. They have better facilities other than rural
areas because of living together that’s why they sent the girls to school.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took an initiative to introduce the idea of formal and non-formal women education throughout the country. For this purpose they had established the prime minister literacy commission and was preparing to set up some 100,000 non-formal schools for girls and women. But now the project is in the doldrums because of the change of government and continuing political instability is seriously jeopardizing its future. Nonetheless, some 1,500 non-formal schools for girls and women, set up under former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Zia ul-Haq, continue to function in rural areas.
Although the media have played an effective
role in convincing people to send their daughters to schools, the situation
remains dramatic in the villages and small towns where almost 70 per cent of
the country's population resides.
0 comments :
Post a Comment