How to eradicate poverty?
In her letter of December 14, Suraiya Zafar suggested enactment of law prohibiting more than two children in a family as part of the plan to eradicate poverty. I thank her for her concern but at the same time I humbly disagree with her because enforcement of such kind of law is almost impossible in our society because of many reasons. Education for all and women empowerment are the most effective and proven steps to eradicate poverty. It is statistically proved that women who work outside usually do not take more than two children. On the other hand, by and large uneducated people take more children than educated people. Unfortunately, poor and uneducated people employ their children instead of giving them education and use them as a source of earning money. Which I think is a crime and is also against our religion. So it is impossible to eradicate poverty without education. If I had the power I would have closed all the academic institutions for six months and would send all the teachers and students on a literacy drive for the uneducated people.
It is possible and it happened in Srilanka. Let us remove the curse of illiteracy in order to establish social justice.
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