A public interest litigation was filed drawing attention to serious deficiencies in eleven government schools in the Dhariawad area, highlighting acute teacher vacancies and poor infrastructure especially in sanitary facilities. The bench of the Rajasthan High Court, comprising Justice Munnuri Laxman and Justice Ravi Chirania, took up the PIL and scrutinised the factual record revealing that these schools were operating with less than half of the sanctioned teaching strength. Observing the gravity of the situation, the Court determined that immediate remedial action was necessary.
The High Court directed the District Collector and the Principal Secretary of the state to file a detailed affidavit setting out the steps taken or proposed to address the teacher shortfall and infrastructural decay, paying special attention to lack of toilets in the concerned schools. The Court also mandated submission of digital photographs documenting the progress made during the previous two years in addressing infrastructure deficits. The bench emphasized that such material evidence be appended to the affidavit, in order to provide verifiable proof of any action initiated or completed.
In addition, based on the Collector’s statement that her requests to the state Finance Department for release of funds had not been acted upon, the Court issued a directive for the Finance Department to consider and process the Collector’s funding request. This was aimed at enabling substantive progress in meeting the infrastructure needs of the schools and remedying the staff shortages. The Court gave the concerned authorities a strict timeline, ordering that the affidavit and photographs be filed within two weeks.
The PIL prompted the High Court to set a further hearing date in August 2025, when the state officials would be expected to appear before the bench with the required factual updates. The petition was captioned Gulab Chand Meena v Secretary, and the High Court clearly signalled that the deficiencies—particularly in staffing levels and toilet facilities—were not tolerable and needed urgent rectification by the state government machinery.
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