Overview

• The bench directed that identified rooms be locked and barred to children, with the state required to arrange alternate spaces for teaching.
• The court relied on a survey of 63,018 government schools with 5,26,162 classrooms that marked 86,934 rooms as completely dilapidated and 5,667 schools as entirely unsafe.
• Judges sought engineering verification of the teacher-reported findings, with the matter listed for September 4 for updated technical reports.
• Sanitation deficits were also flagged, with 17,109 toilets labeled dilapidated and 29,093 assessed as repairable.
• Early funding steps include a state allocation of Rs 175 crore for repairs at 2,000 schools and a central pledge of roughly Rs 3,900 crore under education schemes.