KARAK: Elementary and secondary education department and National Commission for Human Development organised an awareness walk on the occasion of the International Literacy Day here on Monday with the objective to achieve the provincial government’s target of enrolling maximum number of out of school children.

The walk led by district education officer Zahid Rasheed Khattak and NCHD district general manager Shafiuddin started from the Town Hall and terminated at Saddam Chowk. Teachers and students of different schools also participated in the walk, holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans highlighting importance of education.

On the occasion, officials said that the elementary and secondary education department and NCHD had jointly evolved a strategy to bring all the out of school children back to school. They said that parent-teacher councils would be taken onboard to achieve 100 per cent enrollment result.

LOADSHEDDING PERTURBS PEOPLE: Chountra Ittahad, a local rights organisation, has expressed resentment over excessive loadshedding, low gas pressure and threatened to observe complete strike in the district if the authorities failed to improve the situation without delay.

Speaking at a meeting on Monday, the organisation’s office-bearers said that loadshedding of more than 18 hours had paralysed normal life in the district.

The rights activists also criticised the SNGPL for low gas pressure despite promises to improve the same. They said that on one hand the power loadshedding had made people’s lives miserable and on the other they were facing low gas pressure. The meeting decided to observe shutter down strike in the district if utility services were not improved.

Published in Dawn, September 09th, 2014