50pc kids can’t read sentence in Urdu survey Annual Status of Education Report 2011,

LAHORE

The Annual Status of Education Report 2011, a household survey in Punjab which assessed learning outcomes of school-going (5-16 years) age children in 28 districts (rural areas), has found that almost 50 per cent children cannot even read a sentence in Urdu or in their mother tongue while 66 per cent children cannot read a sentence in English of class-II.

According to a press statement, the ASER Punjab (Rural) 2011 survey was launched at Children’s Library Complex here on

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