The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is spending ten billion rupees on construction of two hundred higher secondary schools in the province, reported Radio Pakistan.

A spokesman of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department, in an interview with Radio Pakistan correspondent, said seventy two schools have so far been completed in Dera Ismail Khan, Karak, Lakki Marwat, Hangu, Buner, Upper Dir, Shangla, Swabi Swat Mansehra and Kohistan districts.

He said work on the construction of one hundred and twenty-eight higher secondary schools is in progress, which will be completed during current financial year.