Pakistan School Pakistan: Over 15,000 more schools needed for 4.7m out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Islamabad: Pakistan's Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department will require to establish 15,000 additional government schools for the enrolment of a total 4.7 million out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Official sources in the E&SE Department told Dawn that the figure of 15,000 new government schools surfaced in internal assessment of the department when it started deliberation on how to enrol 4.7 million out-of-school children and provide them the relevant education facilities.
A few months ago, alarm bills sounded in the education department when a survey about the children not attending school was shared with it.
According to the survey conducted by Benazir Income Support Programme, 39 percent of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s 11.7 million children in the age bracket of 5-16 are out of school, including one million living in merged tribal districts, the newspaper reported.
An official in the education department told The Dawn that currently around 35,000 government schools were functioning in KP where 5.5 million children were getting education.
“It is beyond our financial resources and almost impossible for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to construct 15,000 schools for the out-of-school children,” he said.
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