Almost 23,000 Indian Schools Running Under Open Sky

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A document by Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has revealed that nearly 23,000 government schools are running under an open sky. About 22,762 schools including 7,827 schools that are run by local bodies have no building, while 1,757 others across the country are run from tents. In Madhya Pradesh, students are the worst sufferers as more than 4,400 schools are running in the open and about 3,424 schools in Bihar are functioning under similar conditions, the same is the fate of over 2,200 schools in Uttar Pradesh.