Due to shortage of desks at government schools in Haryana, students are forced to sit on the floor. In view of state education department in the state claiming to provide better facilities to the students in government schools in the state as compared to the PM Shri and Model schools private schools, a survey was conducted by group of media persons in 150 schools in the state revealed that the facilities available to the students studying in government schools, especially in rural areas, are far behind the claims facing severe neglect in studies due to shortage of teachers in maximum number of schools as well as amenities provided to the students. According to the survey conducted in 150 schools mostly located in rural areas the students were found sitting on thr ground on carpets instead of desks to take their classes, that too found shivering in early morning hours in open in many cases.

 Accoeding to a survey, most of the government schools in the state are grappling with lack of desks, owing to which students have to sit on the floor to take their classes. The situation is worrisome in rural areas, where scores of schools have very few desks as compared to the number of students. Former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had started the pilot project of allowing the school management committees to purchase desks as per the requirement which was started for his home town Karnal having 484 primary, 118 middle, 57 high and 119 senior secondary schools in the district which included 66 Model Sanskriti Primary and eight Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary schools in which as many as 1,37,343 students were enrolled and the majority of the schools did not have sufficient desks for students and the majority of students have to sit on the floor owing to the lack of desks. Teachers claimed that no new desks had been procured for almost five years, whereas the existing desks were damaged and could not be repaired due to lack of funds. The parents of a few children contacted by the survey team said the government claimed to make the classrooms smart, but in reality there was an urgent need to uplift the infrastructure in government schools.

The survey team disclosed that there is acute shortage of teachers in most of the government schools, especially located in rural areas where the schools were found running with a couple of teachers, the class rooms of several schools were in a shabby state needing immediate repairs, and there were no toilets in many schools for female students. Teachers of several schools said that no new desk has been sent to the school in the past many years in-spite of several requests, but the number of students is much higher than that as such students have to sit on the floor owing to lack of desks. The survey conducted in several districts including Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Kaithal, Jind, Panipat, Rohtak, Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad revealed that there is demand for total number of  80,000 desks from different government schools in the state pending with the state education department at present and nearly two lakh students are compelled to to sit on the ground, though in the absence of desks, students unwillingly sit on mats to study, teachers said the Education Department does not have any data of the availability and requirement of desks.

Information revealed that there are nearly 80,000 students in 778 government schools in Kurukshetra district having nearly 40,000 desks, of which most of the deska are lying damaged. The school teachers said the demand for 1300 desks sent to the education department has been pending for a long time. During a survey of  12 government schools in Kaithal and Yamunanagar districts, desks are being provided only to the students of classes above VI due to shortage since in-spite of requests to the education department they are not getting supplies for the past six years. Similarly, a survey team visited several schools in rural areas in Jind, Panipat, Rohtak, Hisar and Sirsa districts and found a large number of students attending classes while sitting on the ground. Information further revealed that in total of 416 government schools having a strength of 1,08,234 students, more than 25,000 students were compelled to sit on the ground since desks are not being supplied to the schools in-spite of repeated requests.