In order to raise awareness about enrolling out of school children, Numl organised a walk around the campus on Thursday. The theme of the walk was ‘Let’s eradicate illiteracy’. Numl Rector Major General Ziauddin Najam also participated in the walk.

The federal government has recently launched a ‘National enrolment drive’ which aims at enrolling as many out of school children as possible in April.

Under the guidance of the Higher Education Commission, higher learning institutes are also playing their part in bringing out of school children into classrooms.

Before the launch of a national drive, a team of faculty members of the National University of Modern Languages (Numl) and volunteers conducted a detailed survey of the slums around the university campus and identified 300 children who did not go to school.

At present, 24 million children in the country do not go to schools, which is the second largest figure in the world after Nigeria.

Meanwhile, those in public schools are also not getting quality education like that offered by private institutions.

Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2016