Education

Education serves as a key to the development of an area. Pakistan is one of the countries in the world, which invest 2.5% to 3% of the G.N.P on education sector. An attempt has been made to highlight the district education containing the number of educational institutions, students, teachers as well as rural/urban, level wise and sex wise literacy rate. Generally there are two sectors, which are providing education in this area. These are (a) public sector and (b) private sector. Public sector or government sector provides school and college level education. The detail about this sector is given in the table given below:

 

No. Of Government Primary Schools								Enrolment Of Students
Total	Male	Female	Urban	Rural	Urban Male	Urban Female	Rural Male	Rural Female	Total	Male	Female
304	204	100	30	274	20	10	184	90	31134	23611	7523
Government Middle Schools
29	18	11	3	26	1	2	17	9	2088	1589	499
Government High Schools
20	18	2	4	16	3	1	15	1	6358	5920	438

 

Besides this, two higher secondary schools each one for male and one for female while three graduate colleges two for male as against one for female also exist.

On the other hand private sector too, is plying an important role in the development of education in this region.

            Number of private educational institutes up to 2002:

S.No	Level of Institution	Male	Female	Total
1-	Private Primary Schools	35	2	37
2-	Private Middle Schools	23	0	23
3-	Private High Schools	30	1	31
4-	Private Inter Schools	1	0	1
	Total	89	3	92

 

The other institutions that impart education in this region are religious i.e. Dinee Madrassas. The foremost institute for religious education is the mosque related to every village and Mohallah but there are some Madrassas of the Sunnis and Imambargah of the Shias, which impart the religious education to its concerned masses. The total number of these religious bodies i.e. Madrassas and Imambargah in this area are 46 and 19 respectively.

 

Area	1981				1998
	Both Sexes	Male	Female		Both Sexes	Male	Female
All Areas	12.2	21.8	2.9		30.5	53.5	9.8
Rural	10.2	19.1	1.8		26.2	49.8	5.9
Urban	20.8	33.0	7.9		45.9	65.7	25.3