Pakistan, Jan. 24 -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remained in the spotlight for raising the education budget yearly, showing 114 percent increase since 2013 having Rs. 136.19 billion for FY 2018-19. Earlier, 98 schools identified as non-function among which 77 were targeted to be opened by 2018 December, however, the number of non-functional schools have drastically increased to 114 by the end of 2018, revealed by Elementary and Secondary Education Department report in January 2019.

This decrease in the number indicates toward the issue of the construction of these schools to oblige voters by politicians having no feasibility assessments done. Despite the immense increase in the budget every year, it didn't make the mare go and the budget remained...