Reasons For The Low Literacy Rate In Pakistan. State Them.

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Our country is classified into the 3rd World countries mainly due to
the connection of poverty with education or Literacy Rate. Poverty is the biggest
disadvantage and the largest obstacle in the development of our country. Our country is
an agricultural country and the profession of many people living in Pakistan is with this
vast category. The people in this category and the farmers are unable to feed their
families fully and as a result, development stops and population increases.

This great increase in the population of the Pakistan is a hindrance in the correct and
efficient caring of the family. That is why many of the people are unable to provide such
and such level of education to their children and so the literacy rate of the country on the
whole decreases. The second main problem is related to the people living in villages and
other small places. It is said that the population of the villages is many times more than of
the urban people. This is why the people cannot teach and train their children and a vast
number of illiterate children remain in the country.

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One of the main cause of low literacy rate in Pakistan is the male
dominated society that creates many obstacles in the way of acquiring education by
female citizens of the country. Especially people living in interior areas do not allow their
daughters to schools, also wadera system reign in small areas of the country where these
prestigious people feel insult to send their females out of the house and keep them bound
in the four walls of the house. This kind of attitude decreases the literacy rate of our
country. Such people are not aware of the teachings of Islam and many Ahadees in which
our beloved Muhammad (PBUH) has said: "To achieve education is mandatory for both
male and female and seek it no matter if you have to go to China." We must try to create
awareness among the citizens of Pakistan so that we may get a remarkable position
throughout the world by the power of knowledge. Anonymous
Great Answer Report
As we know that literacy rate of Pakistan in 2010 is 56% which is very low literacy
rate.There are many reasons for the low literacy rate in Pakistan.One of the main reason
is the Non-seriousness of the government towards education.Providing free books or
providing free education to the low income people is not enough.They should take major
steps which will really work in increasing the literacy rate of Pakistan.To expect
something without doing anything will not work.They should open government
educational institutions as many as they can and provide best and qualified teachers or
professors.

Reason for low literacy rate in pakistan are wide and numreous in which more imporant
poverty , illiteracy specially among the male, over population, low femaale
literacy(reason are coeducation, distance of school,patriarhal system in our society), lack
of awareness of importance of education, urbanisation, low government spending or low
expenditure of government as compare ot defence expenditure which is 25:1,larege
family size .low literacy among low section of Society like rural people ,people of katchi
abadis, all these and many more reaons which are simultaneously effect on our literacy
rate.

LOW LITERACY RATE IN

LOW LITERACY RATE IN
PAKITAN
Low Literacy rate in Pakistan

 IN T R O DU CT I ON
The term Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write or in other words the ability
to
use a language for reading, writing, listening and speaking.

In Pakistan the literacy rate is very low; First of all literacy is defined here as the people
over 15 years of age who can read and write. According to 2005 estimate 54% percent of
the population is literature, 63 percent of which are male and the remaining female.

Literacy:definition: age 10+ and over can read and write

total population:54%
male:63%
female: 36% (2005 est.)

It has been sixty years of independence but still we, as nations, have been unable to attain
fifty
percent of literacy rate. A nation cannot achieve development without taking any
meaningful
steps for sound educational development. History has witnesses that no nation has been
able to
accelerate in terms of development without considering the aims and objectives of
Pakistan.
Education provides a tool for development to nations. Pakistan is one of the developing
countries that is thriving for improvement in this area. Each and every government has
launched
a stream of five year plans that were arranged so as to fulfill the Millennium
Development goals.
However all resulted in vain since there was no or meager improvement in this regard. A
lower
literacy rate is an outcome despite such acts. Since the inception, education is the most
neglected area and the situation did not improve despite of taken measure to educate
people.
Even there is a large population who did not receive basic education. It was 15 years
back, the
government allotted 2.6 % of the G.D.P for the progression of education however, to add
injury
to an insult, it was limited to 1.8% and the situation got worst.
There are other developing nations like Turkey which allot most of its G.D.P to
Education
department, Pakistan ignored this department. With such non serious attitude towards
Education, and there remain a dearth of well -educated and skillful individuals. Among
the
SAARC Nations, Pakistan is at the sixth and at the 159th position among the 174 World
countries. According to a Government Official Report, the literacy rate in Pakistan is 54
% which
is doubtful

Reasons for the Low Literacy Rate

There are problems ranging from social, cultural, religious, political, psychological and
economic spheres. If one problem is tried to be solved, other prove to be more gigantic in
proportion and without solution of these problems and with out provision of a viable
mechanism,
all the efforts of sustainability are not more than just a dream. Following can be the main
causes
of low literacy in Pakistan:
i.Poverty
Our country is classified into the 3rd World countries mainly due to the connection of
poverty
with education or Literacy Rate. Poverty is the biggest disadvantage and the largest
obstacle in
the development of our country. Our country is an agricultural country and the profession
of
many people living in Pakistan is with this vast category. The people in this category and
the
farmers are unable to feed their families fully and as a result, development stops and
population
increases. The country where 40% of people are living below poverty line can how get
education? According to UNICEF, 17.6% children work and support their families. So, in
such
conditions, role and support of Government becomes inevitable but Government is
continuously
paying no serious attention to these demands.
ii.Population Expansion
This great increase in the population of the Pakistan is a hindrance in the correct and
efficient caring of the family. That is why many of the people are unable to provide such
and such level of education to their children and so the literacy rate of the country on the
whole decreases. The second main problem is related to the people living in villages and
other small places. It is said that the population of the villages is many times more than of
the urban people.
This is why the people cannot teach and train their children and a vast number of illiterate
children remain in the country.

iii.F eudal lords and W adera system

Pakistani politics is govern by feudal system. Feudal lords and wadera system is a big
hurdle in the realization of dream of better literacy rate. Statistics show that there are
tremendous disparities in the country on the basis of gender, class and regions. There is
overall a miserable literacy rate and to further worsen it, women have even less
representation. On national level, their literacy rate is less than half compared to that of
men, and this gap attains magnitude when we turn to rural areas where it is 5%, the
lowest in the world for any class or gender. These feudal lords, waderas and sardars
enjoy political power and using it as a strong weapon in depriving the people from
getting education; as is evident from Baluchistan and others areas of Punjab and Sindh.
They are doing this all just for their personal benefits and by
doing so they make the people serve them and be loyal to them.

iv.Low allocation of Budget

At present, Pakistan is among those twelve countries of the world which are
spending less than 2% of GDP on education, whereas, china is spending 2.82%, India
3.5% and countries like USA, Uk, Japan and Italy are spending more than 5% of GDP on
education. The Government of Pakistan should come out of hibernation and lethargy and
should allocate at least 4% of GDP. According to Education for All Global Monitoring
Report 2008 by UNESCO, Pakistan is spending 2.4 per cent of its GDP on education
against the UNESCO-recommended norm of a minimum of 4 per cent and against 3.8 per
cent spent by India, 7.5 per cent by Maldives, 4.7 per cent by Iran and 3.4 per cent by
Nepal.

Literacy Rates in South Asian Countries (2001