State education, innovation and talent development minister Roland Sagah Wee Inn said the completed projects were among 455 that had been approved for repair works.

“Another 565 dilapidated schools are still under consideration for future development,” he said when winding up for his ministry for the motion of thanks on the Sarawak Yang di-Pertua Negeri’s opening address.

In terms of funding for those projects, he said the federal government, through the education ministry, had allocated RM1.7 billion for 242 school development projects since 2016.

The Sarawak government injected RM1.3 billion for 213 school development projects.

This included RM1 billion in advance payment to the federal government, RM140 million for Projek Rakyat and RM160 million for the Regional Corridor Development Authority (Recoda) school upgrading projects.