What is 1.59 million worth? As a mere number, the value seems pretty ordinary. But if it comes to the fate of this many people, it becomes quite another story. The value is the number of children that the Punjab government’s latest school enrolment drive failed to get back to schools.
An ambitious student enrolment drive is underway in Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) and frontier regions (FR), aimed at bringing 200,000 children to schools.