The literacy rate could only be enhanced by improving the standard of education and introducing the latest methodologies in the education sector, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said.

"There is a dire need to bring about changes to the current system of education in the country besides improving the condition of State-run educational institutions," he said during a visit on Saturday to Sindh Madrassatul Islam and Fatima Jinnah Girls High School.

Sharif said that there were some 60,000 government schools in Punjab and 44,000 in Sindh, but they were not producing the desired results. He said that according to the policies of the present government, government schools in urban and rural areas would be upgraded, and the Punjab government was working on this project on a priority basis.

Source: thenews.com.pk