Peshawar: Education has become the most affected sector, since recent devastating rains and sudden floods have completely destroyed 61 government schools, while another 414 have been damaged in the affected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Of the total destroyed schools, 52 are primary government schools, seven intermediate schools and two secondary, according to official data.
Officials in the Department of Education said Sunrise that damage to school buildings would increase as destroyed schools were in pipes. Dir Lower has registered 17 primary schools of the government destroyed, the highest number, due to heavy rains and sudden floods, followed by Shangla with eight primary schools destroyed.
In Haripur, the buildings of seven schools collapsed, including five primary and one each intermediate and secondary schools.
The official says alternative arrangements to teach students
Similarly, the buildings of eight primary schools and two stockings were destroyed in the tribal district of Mohmand, five in Battagram, including four primary and one medium, four in Abbottabad, including two primary schools and one in each and two and two primary, and a medium were destroyed on Swat, two in Mansehra and one in Buner and upper chitral.
Devastating rains and floods have also partially damaged buildings of 414 government schools, including 319 primary, 36 media, 43 high and 16 higher secondary in the affected areas of the province.
Of the total part of partially damaged schools, 122 are located on SWAT, including 88 primary, 13 average, 13 highs and eight higher secondary schools, 67 in Abbottabad, including 52 primary, seven media, six high and two higher secondary, 72 in Shangla, including 55 primary, six media, nine and three higher secondary and 69 in lower directors, including 68 primary and one medium.
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Similarly, 29 schools have been damaged in Haripur, including 27 primary and one average and high, 17 in Buner, including six primary, four media, five high and two upper secondary, 12 in Mohmand, including six primary schools, two stockings and four superiors and nine in Battagram, including four primary schools, three socks and two.
The catastrophe has also partially damaged eight schools in Mansehra, of which five are primary, two middle schools and one high, three primary in the Higher School and one of the primary school in Bajuar.
The official data also revealed that the four teachers and a non -teaching staff were killed due to rains and floods in Buner, while three other teachers were injured. The data show that four students were killed in the disaster.
“We will continue the education of the students by all means,” said the secretary of the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, Mohammad Khalid, Dawn when asked how education would teach students enrolled in destroyed schools.
He said they would opt for the establishment of prefabricated schools to save time, since such structures could be established within one or two months.
“The department has already planned the establishment of 50 prefabricated schools in different parts of the province. We will change the plan and establish such schools in flood affected areas,” he said.
An official of the Department of Primary and Secondary Education told Dawn that the infrastructure of government schools was present in each village and neighborhood council, so the Department of Education faced large losses in natural and artificial disasters.
“Hundreds of government schools had been destroyed in the devastating earthquake in 2005 in the Hazara division. The provincial government rebuilt a large number of these schools, but it could not yet be rebuilt due to the inefficiency of the federal authority of reconstruction and rehabilitation (erra) and the reconstruction authority of the provincial earthquake and the rehabilitation authority (bitch),” he said.
The infrastructure of the Department of Education was also seriously affected during the war on terrorism, since many government schools were bombarded by terrorists. Some schools were also destroyed by the devastating floods in 2010 in the province.
Posted in Dawn, August 18, 2025
