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Nine-nation ministerial meet on education in Delhi
Thursday November 08, 2012 09:18:51 PM,
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New Delhi:
Ministers and officials from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China,
Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico and Nigeria will chalk out an
action plan for quality education for all in the next two years at
the E-9 Initiative meet here from Friday.
The theme of the two-day ministerial review meeting is 'Inclusive,
Relevant Quality Education for All' and would identify and take
measures to strengthen cooperation on inclusive education in the
nine nations, a Human Resource Development Ministry statement said
Thursday.
E in E-9 Initiative stands for education and 9 for the nine
countries.
India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi
Tharoor and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will open the
meeting.
Ministers and officials from the nine countries will then review
the challenges facing them with a view to increasing bilateral and
collective cooperation.
After the meeting, the ministers would adopt a joint outcome
document.
The E-9 initiative was launched in 1993 in New Delhi at the
Education For All (EFA) summit.
The E9 countries are home to almost half of the world's out of
school children and two-third of the world's illiterate people,
said the statement.
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