Monday September 9, 2013

Kabul (BNA): The universal religion of Islam has given major preference to education and knowledge and they very first verse of the holy Quran which was revealed on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the world (IQRA) or (Read).

This clarifies significance of education and knowledge in the Islamic principles.

There was a time that the Muslim World was dominating on the ocean of knowledge and Islam submitted great contribution in the development of science and medical sciences in the western society.

Following declination of the educational development programs among the Muslim community, dark era for the Islamic world initiated and their civilization confronted major ups and downs in the educational spheres.

Following formation of new political system in Afghanistan, the country received tangible growth in education sector and millions of children who had been deprived of education and knowledge during the chaotic era of the militant Taliban started commuting to the schools.

Despite this growth, Afghanistan still exists in the category of impoverished and backward nations and there is need to extend education sector and invest more so that every pupil in the country is admitted in the schools.

Literacy is one of the foundational aspects of achieving development in various socio-economic fields in a society and without education and knowledge a nation can’t complete m0odern challenges and Afghanistan as an impoverished country extremely requires to further intensifying educational activities to ensure future prosperity and move forward towards prosperity alongside rest of the world community.

Currently, Afghanistan is enlisted among those nations where literacy level is very low and according to a survey accomplished by the UN from the overall 28 million population 66%of the people were not capable of reading and writing which constitute 90%of the women and 63%of the men and UN has described this level shocking among 70% of the overall population living in the villages in the country.

Undoubtedly, most of the crisis in Afghanistan have retain close link to overwhelming illiteracy rate and previous three decades of war beside devastating basic infrastructures of the country also demolished foundations of educational institutions as vast part of the people consisting of the pupils and adults were remained deprived to commute to schools for learning and today they form our uneducated generation.

The ongoing illiteracy rate highly affects people’s perception and awareness from ongoing world scenario and it causes various crises in the society and elimination the tenure helps the country to get rid of the ongoing crisis.

Over the previous ten years, concerned institutions and ministry of education didn’t focus in this respect and our villages in remote regions of the country still coping with the problems.

However, ministry of education formulated an administration entitling as directorate of literacy, but the concerned office failed to facilitate the people in literacy programs and in real sense, ministry of education never realized program portent to enlist literacy program among its top working priorities.

But officials in deputy directorate department claim that they are pursuing activities within the framework of independent directorate of literacy and govt provides financial expenditures and currently more than 364 districts countrywide utilizing from the established literacy centers.

Meanwhile, a number of field analysts emphasize that the concerned authorities failed to forge a harmonized strategy to fight the challenges in effective approach and the analysts claim that Afghanistan didn’t success in the past as well to overcome on illiteracy.

Currently, Afghan ministry of educational is working on plan of national literacy program, but some field analysts believe that this strategy would not bring satisfactory change on current literacy level in the country in the near future.

Undoubtedly, educated cadres could help the govt to form a healthy society.

To come out of the current challenges, government of Afghanistan extremely requires solid.

Determination of Afghan stakeholders to come forwards and by forming comprehensive methodologies cope the illiteracy rate.

Alongside the govt, the people of Afghanistan also keep national obligations to join hands with govt in this mission so that roots of ignorance and illiteracy are totally dried in the country.