No roofs, no toilets, no teachers: TOI check finds minuses in Rajasthan govt schools
A Times of India investigation reveals severe infrastructure deficiencies in Rajasthan government schools, including missing roofs, lack of toilets, and a shortage of teachers. The report highlights that thousands of students are learning in unsafe conditions or temporary shelters.
Why it matters
The findings expose systemic failures in public education infrastructure that directly impact the safety and future prospects of students in rural India.
TOI reporters visited govt schools across six Rajasthan districts after the row over CJP volunteers inspecting campuses. What they found, from Kota’s coaching hub to desert villages and tragedy-hit Piplodi, was a system in which children study under tin sheds, squeeze into unsafe rooms, and sometimes find their school locked.In Kota, a primary school with 78 students operates from municipal parking kiosks and tin sheds. Three teachers run the school on deputation, with no permanent teaching posts sanctioned. A PWD survey found 61 school buildings in the district ruined and hundreds of classrooms unsafe.Across Barmer, Jaisalmer and Balotra, some schools lack buildings, while transfers have left senior-secondary streams without teachers.
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