LAHORE, Sept 8: The City District Government of Lahore will launch within seven days a literacy programme at union council level.

Initially, illiterate children in 10 union councils would be imparted education according to their age, district coordination officer Sajjad Ahmad Bhutta said at a ceremony held in connection with World Literacy Day at Jinnah Hall on Monday.

The programme would be implemented in the remaining 140 union councils in phases and efforts would be made to make Lahore a model district, having literacy rate of 100 per cent.

After enrolment of children who could not get education for any reason, tours of historic sites inside Walled City and public libraries should be arranged for them.

The CDGL had been playing its role for promotion of literacy and would bear the expenses of the tours for such children, the DCO said.