India, Aug. 23 -- After nine students were killed in three incidents of building collapses over the last month in Rajasthan, the state government has identified over 5,600 government school buildings in "dilapidated" condition, according to a report by the education department. A draft copy of the report, which will be finalised in the next 30 days, showed that a survey was ordered by the state government on July 26 -- a day after seven students died after a portion of a school building collapsed in Jhalawar district -- to monitor the condition of 63,058 government school buildings across the state. As per the survey, 5,667 government school buildings and 86,934 classrooms were identified as "completely dilapidated", the report, a copy of which HT has seen, said. This includes 1,579 buildings which were previously declared as dilapidated by district education over the last two years, but significant actions are yet to be taken, it added. A maximum of 605 such school buildings were found in Banswara during the latest survey, followed by 563 in Udaipur, 448 in Jhalawar, 364 in Dungarpur, and 295 in Pratapgarh. Of them, a total of 141 other school buildings in Banswara were previously declared as dilapidated, along side 144 in Udaipur, 13 in Jhalawar, 109 in Dungarpur, and 158 in Pratapgarh, the report said. There are also 158,647 classrooms with plastered roofs and 51,026 with reinforced cement concrete (RCC) roofs that need urgent major repairs, the report listed, adding that 17,109 toilets across these schools are in "complete dilapidated condition" while another 29,093 are in need of major repairs. HT reported on July 27 that an internal report of the state education department revealed that at least 2,710 school buildings in Rajasthan have been found to be in a dilapidated condition since 2024, but the budget allocated for repairs - Rs.254 crores - has not been released. An official from the education department said that the state would need around Rs.25,000 crore to repair the 5,667 schools in "completely dilapidated" condition. "It will be a huge expenditure to repair these buildings immediately. A minimum of Rs.25,000 crores might be required to finish the work properly. Now, it would be interesting to see how the government allocates such a huge budget for this work," the official said on anonymity. The development comes almost a month after seven students lost their lives and 28 others sustained injuries after a portion of a government upper primary school building collapsed in Piplodi village of Jhalawar district on July 25. After the incident, chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma declared that Rs.165 crores will be allocated for repairing school buildings immediately. On July 29, a seven-year-old boy was killed in Jaisalmer after the main gate of a school collapsed on him. On Independence Day, the roof of an under construction government secondary school in Patharpadi in Udaipur's Kotda collapsed, claiming the life of an 11-year-old girl....