ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Education Baligh Ur Rehman revealed that literacy rate in Pakistan raised to 59.9 percent, TheNewsTribe.com reported.
State Minister on Friday unveiled that Punjab top the list in Pakistan with 61.7 followed by Sindh with 61.3 percent. According to stats issued told by Baligh ur Rehman, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is on third number in the list as literacy rate in KP in 53.1 and Pakistan’s largest province on last with 51.8 percent of literacy rate.
Earlier in June 2015, the Pakistan Economic Survey 2014-15 unveiled on Thursday stated that the literacy rate has gone down by 2% in 2013-14 as compared to the previous year when it was 60%.
However, the survey, which uses data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM), appears to have either quoted the figures wrongly or the numbers have been fudged intentionally.
While the overall literacy rate for 2012-13 has been shown at 60%, it is actually 58% in the PSLM data.
The figures are alarming as under the United Nation’s MDGs, Pakistan was required to increase its literacy rate to 88% by 2015. The net primary enrolment ratio, which should have been 100% by the end of this year, has remained constant at 57% since 2011-12.
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