On the ground, the K-P governor represents the federal government and effectively directs the Fata Secretariat. In recent years, the security establishment has called all the shots. The Fata Secretariat has a finance department, but its website is silent about the new budget. Nay, it says nothing about the past budgets either. There is also a planning and development department. It does not say anything about the development budget. Federal budget documents are the only source of information. These documents show a current budget allocation of Rs 21.9 billion and a development budget allocation of Rs26.9 billion. Thus in 2017-18, the region will receive a total budget of Rs48.8 billion, less than Rs10,000 per person per annum. The development budget is higher than the current budget, indicating that there are fewer existing facilities to be maintained than those to be created. In the revised estimates of 2016-17, an allocation of Rs8.4 billion is shown outside of PSDP for Citizen Losses Compensation Programme. In the 2016-17 budget, a Rs100 billion Special Development Programme for Temporarily Displaced Persons was included. The revised estimate just shows an expenditure of Rs14 billion on security enhancement, including Rs5.6 billion for Fata. In the budget for 2017-18, a sum of Rs45 billion each has been allocated for IDPs and security enhancement. What about education? The current budget allocation for 2017-18 is Rs12.8 billion, an increase of 9.4 per cent over the previous budget. The revised estimate is the same as the budget estimate, ie, Rs 11.7 billion, suggesting that no information was available at the time of budget preparation. These numbers do indicate that more than 50 per cent of the total current budget is spent on education, most of it on elementary education.