School, Covid duties take toll on primary teachers

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, June 25

The deployment of around 1,200 government primary schoolteachers on Covid duty has not only adversely affected studies, but has left four of them positive recently. A dozen other teachers have also fallen sick in the past one week.

A letter written by Badkhal subdivision SDM recently asked the District Education Officials to relieve all those teachers from education or routine official work to make them available exclusively for Covid duty, as it has been assigned by the district authorities. However, District Elementary Education Officer Shashi Ahlawat claimed that one of the woman teachers got infected by her kin and not during the official duty. 

Meanwhile, Chatar Singh, president, district unit, Haryana Primary Teachers’ Association, said he had written to the area MLA and MP to intervene into the matter and spare the teachers taking online classes from Covid duty.

Admitting the engagement of teachers in the pandemic-related activities, Deputy Commissioner Yashpal Yadav said it was part of the overall policy of the state government.

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