KARACHI, March 23: The Naib Nazim, Nasreen Jalil, has said the city government will open 400 literacy centres in the city for which the literacy department has started planning. She was speaking as the chief guest at a stone laying ceremony of a swimming pool for women at Muslim Gymkhana on Sunday.

She underlined the need for such literacy centres for children and young people who were not going to schools.

She said in view of the rapid population growth and lack of attention by parents, it was imperative to set up literacy centres in every area and mohallah where children could be equipped with education.

Nasreen said the literacy development department, which was planning for setting up 240 literacy centres, had now decided to raise the number to 400.

The naib nazim said the literacy rate in Karachi was higher than in other areas of the country and majority of the children here were school going.

She said it was a good omen that people coming here from other parts of the country, too, sent their children to schools.

She described the Memons, a law abiding community which, she said, had set a good example in society for others.

She added that it was necessary for everyone to abide by the law to have a better society to live in.—APP