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<p>A lawmaker in the provincial assembly has suggested through a bill that students should teach at least two persons of their localities and get additional marks in the examinations to increase adult literacy in the province. MPA Saqibullah Khan Chamkani of the ruling Awami National Party has recently submitted the private bill -- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province Adult Literacy (Principles) Bill, 2010 -- in the assembly secretariat, it is learnt.  The bill doesn't involve any financial implication for the provincial kitty, however, it envisage an innovative idea of engaging students in increasing adult literacy.  The said bill includes provisions regarding adult literacy. It states that the government, within a period of one year, shall: ensure the right to education of all citizens, regardless of age; address the education needs of adults alike; make and maintain an adult education delivery system; and appropriate reasonable budgetary allocation to support adult education delivery system.  The interim arrangement proposes that a student of 10th and 12th grades shall be given 10 and 15 extra marks respectively if the student teaches at least one illiterate adult person how to read and write his or her name, read and write numeric from zero to 10, and Urdu/Pashto alphabets.  It also suggests that a student seeking a bachelor degree shall be given 20 extra marks if he/she teaches two illiterate adult persons read and writ his or her name, read and write numeric from zero to 10 and Urdu/Pashto alphabets.  Under the proposed law it would be binding on the government to prepare and lay annual report before the assembly every year in the month of May. The report would be comprised on the overall activities carried out by the government in the execution of adult literacy in the province, the number of adults got literate, expenditures of adult literacy system, appropriate budgetary allocation for the current financial year and proposed plan for the coming year.  The bill sates that the standing committee of assembly shall have exclusive power to monitor the adult education delivery system and submit special reports to the assembly evaluating activities of government delivering adult literacy.  The proposed bill defines the literacy as: reading newspaper in local/national language; writing a simple letter; and ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide up to three figures.  The preamble of the bill states that as the state is duty bound by the Constitution to remove illiteracy and provide for free education; and whereas right to education is a fundamental right of every citizen, therefore, it is expedient to provide for broad principles of adult literacy in the province.  MPA Chamkani, when contacted, said that assemblies should focus on the long term policies. &quot;Here people get education for certificates and government jobs which is a burden on the government,&quot; he said.  He said that in the proposed law the students of grade 10th and intermediate would get 15 marks while the students of bachelor degree would get 20 marks for teaching at least one illiterate adult person.  &quot;This way, thousands of people would get literate across the province without spending a single penny from the national exchequer as each year thousands of students qualify examinations,&quot; he said.</p>