They got more children into schools — especially from private schools into government schools, outfitted schools with essential items such as benches and chairs along with boundary walls and even stipend for children to attend schools. Even as that may be, there are still 1.5 million children across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) who are not in schools while hundreds of schools are still without basic facilities. According to the K-P Elementary and Secondary Education Department’s out-of-school children survey (conducted in 2016) a total of 1.52 million children across the province were still not in school. To encourage extracurricular activities amongst students, the ESED set up 10,000 play areas and over 140 sports grounds in schools. To improve the creative skills of students, the ESED distributed over 5.1 million drawing books among K-P’s students.

Source: The Express Tribune January 03, 2018 05:26 UTC