Transgender community included in literacy campaign: minister

LAHORE:Punjab Minister for Literacy and Non-Formal Education Raja Rashid Hafeez has said the transgender community has also been included in adult literacy campaign to make them a useful organ of the society.

Presiding over a department meeting to review progress on literacy campaign and the facility of co-curricular activities in non-formal schools, the minister expressed the satisfaction that resources had been provided to achieve 100 percent literacy. The department was working hard to materialise the efforts of promoting education in society, he said. In this regard, a composite literacy policy had been chalked out and the prisoners were also rehabilitated, along with the provision of education, so that they may become a useful citizen of the society after their release.

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