ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: The ministry of education will soon revise the National Education Policy 1998 by devising a new strategy for its effective implementation at the grass-roots level.

This was stated by Federal Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf while speaking at a seminar organized by the ministry in collaboration with Unesco on the International Literacy Day here on Wednesday.

According to a press release, the minister described the education policy as an ideal and best suited to the needs of the country but added that it lacked an effective implementation mechanism.

He said the high-ups and policy makers of the ministry had been assigned the task to evolve an effective implementation strategy through which the writ of the ministry of education would prevail on the provinces without compromise on provincial autonomy as envisaged in the Constitution.

The minister said he was likely to request the GHQ for engaging well-educated personnel of the army in the cantonments to educate the out-of-school children, which would help raise the literacy rate in the country.