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Absence of proper classroom environment hampers the teaching process and affects all students. Various researchers as well as Government agencies have documented the absence of adequate physical infrastructure in Indian primary schools. Typically, such schools are situated at rural areas, at lower caste habitations, at tribal habitations and in poor urban settlements. This paper attempts to describe the selected indicators of classroom environment in the primary schools of Muslim majority villages. Attempts have also been made to identify the factors influencing the classroom environment, and how Muslim parents see the quality delivery issue in those selected schools. Muslims are second largest religious group in India after the Hindus. With help of primary data collected from eight (8) schools, selected through a multi-stage sampling process, the paper have highlighted the factors of high Student Classroom Ratio (SCR), Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR), historical neglect in provision of infrastructure, inadequate number of teachers and language barriers in the study area. The paper shows that inadequacies in the physical environment are seriously undermining the quality delivery by the teachers in the primary schools in Muslim majority villages. As a result, the learning of all children enrolled in those schools is being hampered.