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| FDE 'literacy cell' does not exist |
| 2014-12-05 |
| [DAWN] A literacy cell claimed to have been established by the Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) around three months back does not exist. Betcha it's got a payroll, though. "A literacy cell was formed at the FDE this August on the directives of the minister of state to improve the enrollment rate and decrease dropout rate in schools. Literacy cell comprises the director general, director literacy, deputy director literacy, assistant, assistant education officer, and inspectors (evaluation)," read an official blurb issued by CADD on November 2. That was 33 days ago. In reality, no notification has been issued to appoint anyone as director literacy and no other staff members have been hired. No office/room has been reserved this cell either. Payroll, payable in small bills, has been submitted. "The cell is functioning in air," said a senior officer of FDE. It was supposed to focus on over 27,000 out-of-school children of the federal capital. I get a "divide by zero" error on "target population/staff" calculation. A senior officer at CADD told Dawn: "It was a good initiative by the minister but I don't know why this project is facing delays," he said, adding that paper work was almost complete and hopefully in the next few days the cell will be formed. "The minister's got lotsa relatives." It is relevant to note here that the state minister for CADD, Barrister Usman Ibrahim, while addressing at an event held in September at Islamabad College for Boys in connection with World Literacy Cell, also announced that a literacy cell would be established at FDE. |
| Posted by:Fred |