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Thousands of Classrooms in Pakistan's KPK in Dilapidated Condition
- •Around 37,000 classrooms across Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are in dilapidated condition.
- •The revelation follows a tragic school building collapse in Peshawar that killed 35 people, including 34 students.
- •The disaster prompted the provincial government to order an investigation and initiate safety assessments of school buildings.
- •Out of nearly 35,000 government schools in the province, 19,224 classrooms require reconstruction and 17,743 need repairs.
- •The Private Schools Regulatory Authority noted it has 11,542 registered private schools but lacks data on unregistered institutions.
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An education department official stated that approximately 37,000 classrooms across Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are in a dilapidated condition. Specifically, 19,224 classrooms require reconstruction and another 17,743 need repairs.
A tragic school building collapse occurred at Al-Khair Education System in Dir Colony, Peshawar, when the roof of a nursery classroom on the second floor collapsed onto rooms on the lower floors. The incident resulted in the deaths of 35 people, including 34 students, and injured 52 others.
Following the tragedy, the provincial government ordered an investigation and initiated a province-wide safety assessment of private school buildings. The Elementary and Secondary Education Department directed district-level committees to inspect these facilities and submit their findings and recommendations within three days.
