Nationwide school enrollment campaign starts

In a bid to increase children's access to quality education, the government has from today started, what it calls, a nationwide "school enrollment campaign".

According to the Department of Education (DOE), the campaign that is organized every year will chiefly target over one hundred thousand children who have not received any primary level schooling till now.

The Department further said that this campaign will run for the next three weeks during which time not only children coming to schools will get admission but the education officials would themselves also go to each and every house asking parents to admit their children in schools.

Janardan Sharma, director of DOE, informed that from this year on children below the age of 5 years would not be admitted in the primary level like in the past years. Instead they will be admitted in pre-primary or kindergarten schools, he said.

Since the past five years, the DOE has been starting the campaign from the beginning of every new academic year to meet the government's aim of "Education for all" till the year 2015.

It is estimated that around 445,000 children across the country don't have access to school education. nepalnews.com ag Apr 16 08