Centre, Provinces Green Light Action Plan to Enrol Out-of-School Children

Centre, provinces green light action plan to enrol out-of-school children

ISLAMABAD: In a show of unity, the federal government, provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) have approved the ‘National Education Action Plan’ to tackle the issue of out-of-school children (OOSC) during the 38th Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC). UN agencies, including Unicef, say that more than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, placing the country among those with the highest n…