HYDERABAD, Aug 4: The National Commission for Human Development has launched a literarcy programme for jails of Sindh to give education to illiterate men, women and juvenile prisoners.

This was stated by the regional literacy coordinator NCHD, Major (rtd) Zafar Islam at a workshop at the central prison on Thursday.

A batch of 90 prisoners will be given education and within two years jail inmates of central and women prisoners of 15 to 39 years of age group will be made literate.

The regional coordinator said NCHD’s education programme had spread in 48 districts of the country after the commission’s formation in 2002. He said the country’s literacy rate stood at 54 per cent which was very poor.