gurugram after closing over 2500 staterun schools in the past three years the haryana government is now finalising a list to permanently close over 1000 schools that have 25 or fewer students enrolled in gurugram the move will lead to the closure of some 43 schools where around 650 students are currently studying the department has asked all the districts to submit an updated list of all such schools by this weekof these 1057 schools in the state 743 are primary schools and 314 middle schools officials said similarly of the 43 schools in gurugram that have appeared in the first list 32 are primary schools with around 438 students and 11 are middle schools with over 200 students out of these 43 schools over 13 have less than 10 students enrolled and five have no students at allan education department official told toi this is a regular exercise carried out by the department schools with fewer students put stress on resources so we try to rationalise it by merging that way we also ensure healthy students to teachers ratio in other schools we have directed all the schools to comply with the orders and will submit the data in a day or twolast year toi reported that the government was contemplating shutting down over 1000 schools in the state in a bid to rationalise the resources the exercise was deferred after the teachers protested against the decision the department had given them time to increase the enrollment before finally undertaking the merging exerciseteachers however have contested that it violates the right to education rte act that mandates the availability of schools within a one km radiusthey argued that many girls dont enroll in schools or drop out due to the unavailability of schools in the vicinity and their parents dont allow them to travelit took so much time to get sanctions for these schools and merging them instead of evolving them is not a good move as per the rte there should be schools within one kilometer for every student and if schools are merged at this rate then its concerning said dushyant thakran district head of haryana prathmik shikshak sangh