Access to education for all children stressed.

LAHORE -- Participants in a consultation by civil society demanded on Tuesday that education leaders and decision makers ensure access to quality education to all children under Article-25A of the Constitution without any discrimination.

Punjab Standing Committee on Education Chairperson Aisha Nawaz Chaudhry, Punjab Standing Committee on Gender Mainstreaming Chairperson Uzma Kardar, MPA Ayesha Iqbal, Literacy and Non-Formal Education Secretary Sumaira Samad, Adviser to Punjab Education Minister Aasiya Khurram Agha, School Education Department Additional Secretary, Women Development Department Secretary and members from Private Schools Association, civil society and academia attended the event.

The meeting measured progress in achieving SDG4 of Quality Education and implementing Punjab Free and Compulsory Education (PFCE) Act, 2014.

The participants said people were reluctant to send their children to public schools as the state had failed to provide quality education and continued to only talk about it and did nothing.

They said slow implementation of Article-25A in Punjab would impact...