Jaipur, July 28 -- The Centre told the Lok Sabha on Monday that Rajasthan received nearly Rs.2.31 lakh crore in central aid under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan over the last five years, but nearly one in five of the 11,014 school infrastructure projects approved under the scheme remain incomplete. Union minister of state for education Jayant Chaudhary, in reply to a question by Barmer MP Ummeda Ram Beniwal, said the Centre has sanctioned and released funds under the Samagra Shiksha scheme for Rajasthan over the past five years and outlined the physical progress made in developing school infrastructure across the state. The scheme supports government schools through the construction of classrooms, toilets, libraries, science laboratories, drinking water facilities, electricity connections and other infrastructure. Central share allocations to Rajasthan rose steadily over the period under review went from about Rs.2,730 crore in 2021-22 to a peak of nearly Rs.3,865 crore in 2024-25, before easing slightly to Rs.3,705 crore in 2025-26. Across all five years, however, actual central releases fell short of what was allocated. The gap was widest in 2022-23, when only about Rs.2,139 crore of the Rs.3,452 crore allocated was actually released - leaving over Rs.1,300 crore, or nearly 38%, pending. In 2024-25 too, releases of Rs.3,091 crore trailed the Rs.3,865 crore allocation by close to Rs.775 crore. Total expenditure - which includes Rajasthan's own matching share - has nonetheless comfortably exceeded central releases every year, peaking at around Rs.5,064 crore in 2023-24. On physical progress, the state has completed 9,043 of 11,014 approved works over the five-year period - a completion rate of roughly 82%. Several categories are at or near full completion: electrification works (329 of 330, or 99.7%) and hand-washing stations (38 of 38, all completed) stand out as success stories, alongside major repairs (829 of 852, or 97 percent). However, the data also highlights significant gaps in school infrastructure. The weakest performance was recorded in the repair or reconstruction of dilapidated school buildings, with only 52 of the 457 approved projects completed-a completion rate of just 11%, leaving nearly 90% of identified unsafe or crumbling school buildings unattended. Progress has also been slow in the construction of boundary walls, with only 247 of the 376 sanctioned works completed, leaving more than 100 schools without secure perimeters. Similarly, only 86 of the 138 approved interventions for schools functioning without permanent buildings have been completed. While computer room construction has achieved an 82% completion rate (942 of 1,142), science laboratories lag at 80 per cent, with 1,341 of 1,669 approved labs completed. Girls' toilet construction has progressed more slowly than boys' toilets, with 621 of 719 girls' toilets (86%) completed compared to 520 of 559 boys' toilets (93%). The state has also completed 206 of the 247 approved school opening and upgradation projects, noted the minister. On the question of gaps, deficiencies, teacher vacancies and infrastructure shortfalls, the minister's noted that education is in the concurrent list, with the majority of schools under the domain of state and Union Territory governments, and that recruitment, service conditions and deployment of teachers are matters for the states to handle....