60k teachers to skip counting of votes in UP polls

60k teachers to skip counting of votes in UP polls

01.05.2021 

Teachers’ unions in Uttar Pradesh, including one affiliated to RSS, announced on Friday they would boycott their poll duty on May 2, the day panchayat election votes would be counted. The unions claim to have more than 60,000 teachers with them, reports Kanwardeep Singh.

UP Shikshak Mahasangh president D C Sharma told TOI, “They (the government) are not at all bothered that we lost 706 teachers (to Covid-19) due to election duty. The number could increase. After a final meeting, we have decided to strike work that day. The government can take any decision they want. The lives of the teachers are more important than anything else.” TNN