TEHRAN – An official with the Ministry of Education has said that some 65,000 classrooms in the country should be renovated.

There are around 105,000 classrooms in the country, IRNA quoted Hamir-Reza Khanmohammadi as saying.

Some 82 percent of the classrooms are safe and 18 percent should be renovated, he added.

In August 2023, the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment of Schools announced that the number of newly built schools across the country has increased by 104 percent over the past two years.

On a daily basis, 47 new classrooms have been constructed all over the country during the past two years.

On July 11, 2023, the 25th conference on honoring school-building benefactors was held at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran.

Addressing the conference, First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber said investing in education and manpower training is the root and basis of any country's development, and this starts from schools.

In the Iranian year that ended in March 2023, benefactors donated more than 160 trillion rials (about $320 million) to build and equip schools across the country, he added, IRNA reported.

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