Out of the 27,000 schools with three classrooms or fewer, Hassan has 1,738, followed by Tumakuru (1,659), Kalaburgi (1,172), Chitradurga (1,093), Bengaluru Rural (764) and Dharwad (317). Basavaraj Gurika, president, Karnataka Primary School Teachers Association had told TOI that in the last three years, nearly 32,000 primary school teachers have retired, adding to the shortage.Number of Schools out of the 75,489 classified based on No. And, more than 50% (14,064) of the 27,000 have two classrooms, while 10,592 have three classrooms.Tumakuru, Bengaluru Rural, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Kalaburgi, Hassan are among the worst faring among the 34 educational districts. No of ClassroomsNo of Schools016412,083214,064310,592More than 448586BENGALURU: Government's policy that the number of teachers in each school determine the number of classrooms as opposed to the number of classes has resulted in nearly 27,000 schools or 36% out of the 75,489 including private ones in Karnataka having three or fewer classrooms, with 2,083 of them having just one.The provisional figures for 2015-16 by District Information System for Education (DISE) also reveal that 164 schools have no classrooms at all. "He added that the Right To Education (RTE) Act reinforcing this policy has not helped the cause.

Source: Times of India June 19, 2016 12:59 UTC