ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday highlighted the importance of increasing the literacy rate in the country to achieve national development and prosperity. “There is not a single country in the world that has progressed without achieving a 90 per cent literacy rate,” he said while addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Center for Excellence for Childhood Development at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice Chancellor Secretariat. As per the data of the 7th Digital Census-2023, he regretted that Pakistan’s literacy rate stood at around 61 per cent, stressing the need for improvement to enable the younger generation to compete in the era of digital revolution and rapid innovation that has transformed all fields. DNA
