obstetrical and neonatal programme (SONU) has been adopted and the financing projected to the tune of CFAF 4 196 075 000 every year is scheduled for the period 2006-2015. D. The Right to Education a) Implementation of the principle of free education 189. The principle of free primary education is affirmed by Law No. 013-2007/AN of 30 July 2007 on the Framework Law on Education of Burkina Faso. In accordance with Article 6 of this Law, basic public education is free in Burkina Faso. However, the participation of freelyconstituted grassroots communities in partnership with the State and local authorities is accepted. The principle of free education has brought about growth in enrolments of pupils at the basic education level. The gross enrolment ratio which was 71.8% in 2007/2008, increased to 79.6% in 2011/2012 and 81.3% in 2012-2013. At the post-primary level of education, Junior Secondary School (6ème, 5ème, 4ème, 3ème), free education was operational in 131 communes in 2012 (against 45 communes in 2008) out of the 350 communes in the country. Other measures have been taken to reduce the cost of school fees. This includes in particular the reduction of the registration fees in public schools by half, rental of school textbooks at highly reduced prices and the offer of subsidies to private schools by the State. 190. These efforts contributed to an improvement of indicators. Thus, the gross enrolment ratio at the post-primary level increased from 32.3% in 2010-2011 to 34.9% in 2011-2012, then to 36.7 % in 2012-2013. The total number of schools increased from 1415 in 2010-2011 to 1578 in 2011-2012, representing an increase of 163 schools. The BEPC pass rate was 52.16% in 2012 as against 30.64% in 2011. In 2013, this ratio declined to 22.6%. The Baccalauréat also recorded a drop in performance with the pass rate of 34.9 % in 2013 as against 38.38 % in 2012 and 40.81 in 2011. b) Introduction of national languages in education 191. The introduction of national languages into education is one of the major objectives of the government as outlined in the 2012-2021 basic education strategic development programme. A department responsible for bilingual education has been established for this purpose at the Ministry of Education and Literacy and the implementation of this programme is being pursued gradually based on requests made by the concerned communities for the opening or change of the conventional academic schools into bilingual schools. Since December 2009, 88 requests have been awaiting action. In 2011-2012, twenty-two schools were integrated into the bilingual system, out of which 18 were opened and 4 changed. Table 6: Trend of indicators in the bilingual primary education system Indicator Number of schools Number of classrooms Number of teachers Number of pupils Number presented at the CEP(Primary School Leaving Certificate Pass rate at the CEP (PSLC) 2009/2010 108 448 448 17773 2834 2010/2011 127 483 483 20295 2982 2011/2012 150 532 532 23235 3078 2012/2013 159 600 NA NA NA 60.38% 61.77% 64.43% NA 49