17 govt staff face VRS threat for refusing poll duty

17 govt staff face VRS threat for refusing poll duty

Kangkan.Kalita1@timesgroup.com

Guwahati:17.03.2021 

Poor health may not be reason enough to stay away from election duty, some school teachers may find to their cost.

The Nalbari administration has recommended "voluntary retirement" of 17 government school teachers to the state education department, even after the medical board certified these teachers unfit for election duty.Sources in the election department said they are receiving applications from a number of government employees in various districts for exemption from poll duty, but the steps taken by the Nalbari administration has raised the eyebrows of even government officials.

“Medical fitness is essential for continuation in service. It appears that the incumbent (the teachers) have been found medically unfit but not on medical leave. It may be assumed that they are not fit for their service too,” read the letter to the secretary of the state secondary education department from the Nalbari deputy commissioner.

Sherecommended in the letter that the employees may be asked to go on voluntary retirement from service.

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‘MEDICALLY UNFIT’: The school teachers had pleaded for exemption from poll duty on grounds of poor health