Over 400 K-P open schools work in rented buildings costing millions to exchequer
Mansehra tops a list with 45 primary schools regulating rented buildings, while Dera Ismail Khan follows with 43 primary schools regulating in these premises. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
PESHAWAR: Over 400 public schools are handling in rented buildings in 20 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and a provincial supervision is doling out millions of rupees from open supports in this regard.
According to central data, 400 primary and 11 center schools now work in rented buildings.
Talking to The Express Tribune K-P Elementary and Secondary Education Department deputy Najiullah Khattak pronounced a upgradation of hundreds of schools is now underway heading to schools temporarily changeable to rented buildings or government schools.
Around 2,300 schools’ uplifting has been finished so distant while others are still in process, he added.
Khattak went on to say that in hilly areas a infancy of schools have been shop-worn or broken by a trembler behind in 2005 or flooding that has also led to private building being used.
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The provincial government, he also said, has started work to restore those schools and a infancy of them are finish now.
Mansehra has surfaced a list with 45 primary schools regulating rented buildings followed by Dera Ismail Khan with 43 primary schools.
Moreover, a other relapse of primary schools are: 35 in Abbottabad; 30 any in Charsadda, Nowshera, Kohat, Swabi, Shangla and Malakand; 26 in Peshawar; 21 in Mardan; 19 in Swat; eight in Karak; seven in Tank; four in Battagram; 5 in Lakki Marwat; three in Haripur, dual in Chitral and one any in Bannu and Hangu.
The series of center schools that work in private buildings are 11 that include two in Shangla, one any in Battagram and Haripur, three in Mansehra and dual any in Swat and Abbottabad.
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