PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department claimed on Saturday it would ensure 100 per cent utilisation of its annual development allocations by end of current fiscal year.

According to a statement issued here, the education department said that it would achieve the target of utilising the entire Annual Development Fund of Rs19.9 billion.

It is to mention here that the Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) had in a statement said that the elementary and secondary education department`s utilisation stood at Rs9.3 billion as of June 5, 2015, out of the total Rs19.9 billion allocated to it in the 2014-15 budget, while quoting figures from the finance department.

The CGPA regularly puts out figures of utilisation by various government departments, received under the Right to Information Act f rom the finance department.

The CGPA had also said that almost 2.5 million children were out of school in the province, which the education department has termed as misleading. `No one knows how many children are out of school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,` said the statement of the education department.

It further said that presumably the figure of 2.5 million children was derived from Alif Ailan, an NGO working on education across the country, which in its recent report stated that 25 million children were out of school across the country, of which 10 per cent were in KP.