Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: FaultLine who wrote (9082)	11/5/2001 11:41:48 PM
From: k.ramesh	of 281500

The demographic bomb in S Asia dwarfs any of these bombs. At the risk of repeating, Foreign policy is so caught up in 'macho' stuff like bombs to the exclusion of stuff like schools and school lunches. Here are some snips from Frontier post.pk followed by a program to create > 16,000 primary schools in one year in one of the poorest states in India. There is map at the site to pick a school by district etc. by clicking, from the main page (fundaschool.org without the /html/...) neat use of web. My idea here is to try to replicate what works in one place with the help of the world community. frontierpost.com.pk snip And this is what we are doing with our children in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Children comprise almost 51percent of our population (73691000 under 18) but we have no plans or strategies for them, they are nowhere on our agenda of priorities. This is a situation that is leading our nation towards a total collapse but we are not realising it. end snip snip In 1951, Pakistan's literacy ratio was 17 percent according to census report, in 1981 it was 26 percent, 9 percent increase in 30 years while according to 1998 census our literacy ratio is 46 percent which again shows that we paid very little attention to educating our children. Because of having no plans for children Pakistani society is experiencing different kinds of changes, now we see children on the streets of our big cities, they are used for smuggling and drug trafficking, you see them working in very difficult circumstances, they sell water on the roads and beg in a very large number. There are thousands of children in the jails being used by different gangs for drug trafficking and other criminal acts. They work in workshops and with public transport and become drug users because of the environment where they work. end snip The Education Guarantee Scheme fundaschool.org highlights Reached out to the unreached in the quickest possible time. Demand-based, time-bound strategy to universalise access demonstrated. Now in Madhya Pradesh "any community without a primary schooling facility within 1 km. and with 25 children can demand schooling facility and the Government guarantees to provide it within 90 days". A new paradigm of community-centered primary education in a rights-based framework has been operationalised. The fact that 40 primary schools opened every day of 1997 showed the demand that existed. Madhya Pradesh reached a facility to every habitation by August 1998. Eliminated historical backlog in 18 months at one-third cost. Not just physical access provided. But access for social equity. Target group consists mainly of scheduled tribes (indigenous people) and girl children. EGS has become a national model for community based primary education in India. It won the first Commonwealth International Innovation Award for Public Service of CAPAM in 1998.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next