HYDERABAD, May 30: The district government, Hyderabad, has decided to under take a massive literacy campaign from the month of July with the cooperation of active and registered non-governmental organizations.

This was stated by the executive district officer, literacy, Hyderabad, Ibrahim Qureshi, while talking to a seven-member youth delegation here at his office on Wednesday.

Mr Qureshi informed that a proforma had already been prepared while a survey would be conducted from the next month with the assistance of respective Taluka Nazims of Hyderabad district in order to determine the illiteracy rate of the district.

He said that the campaign would be launched from prisons, Dar-ul-Aman and other such institutions where the reform programmes were already being carried out.

He said that according to the decision of the government, literacy committees would be formed at taluka level with respective taluka Nazim as its chairman and Naib Nazim of union councils, representatives of NGOs and prominent educationist of the area would be the members of the committee.

He added that the deputy district literacy officer would act as the secretary of the committee.

The EDO said that the federal government had set a target to double the literacy rate by 2010 and added that the present literacy rate ranged between 40 to 46 per cent.

He informed that during the year 2002-2003, ten education centres for male and female students would be established in each taluka of the district.

He said that five more centres would be established during the next two years.