Hundreds of thousands of children deprived of education in KP: Rana Mashhood

LAHORE, Feb 27 (APP):Provincial Minister Schools Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan Tuesday claimed that school enrolment campaign
for children has miserably failed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and hundreds of thousands of children were deprived of going to school whereas more than 5 million students had been enrolled in schools of Punjab province from 2008 to 2017.
He said that according to recent survey conducted with the teachers of elementary and secondary Education departments
KP, hundreds of thousands of children were still out from schools. Similarly, 275 schools are nonfunctional due to unavailability of
teachers, land disputes and security issues. The above mentioned report has been prepared by the government and
non-government organizations working in the educational sector in KP, says a handout issued here on Tuesday.
The Minister said the report had highlighted the reasons of closure of schools included unsatisfactory law and order
situation, deficiency of teachers and other staffs besides land disputes. It is worth mentioning that there is ongoing
campaign in KP by teachers, schools administration headmasters and principals for the up-gradation and time scale.
He said that teachers of KP are demanding from their government to adopt the measures introduced in Punjab for
providing quality education.
According to teachers of KP imparting quality education in the current scenario is totally impossible. Rana Mashhood
Ahmad said that Punjab government had allocated a huge amount of Rs. 345 billion in education sector.
Three thousand schools have been upgraded and first time 154 public schools of Punjab received International awards
from British Council, he added.