TAXILA, April 30: Tehsil Nazim Mohammad Sadeeq Khan has said the Punjab government was determined to achieve 85 percent literacy rate in the province by the year 2015. He was speaking as chief guest at the concluding ceremony of a literacy walk held in connection with the ongoing literacy week in the Rawalpindi district.

The walk was organised by the district education department in collaboration with the tehsil administration.

Mr Khan said no nation could achieve economic development and prosperity without quality education.

He said the federal and provincial governments had included Rawalpindi in the four model literacy districts of the Punjab and steps were underway to make hundred percent literacy rate in Taxila through extraordinary steps like establishment of a polytechnic college, a vocational centre and a degree college for women besides establishment of a model school.

He said by taking these revolutionary steps, Taxila would be made high literate tehsil of the Punjab.

Speaking on the occasion, District Officer (Literacy) Prof Abdul Hameed Dar said the literacy week had been organised as part of a plan to achieve 100 per cent literacy rate in the district.—Our Correspondent