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LUCKNOW: Despite being eight-month pregnant, Sita Kushwaha (30), a shiksha mitra in an upper primary school in Kushinagar, was deployed in panchayat poll duty on April 29.
A day later, she suffered labour pain and developed complications. Both the mother and the child could not be saved.
Sita was not the only one to lose her life in the line of duty.
According to UP Shikshak Sangh, over 700 primary teachers lost their lives either during training for election duty or at polling or counting centres.
After the teachers’ associations demanded financial assistance for the families of those teachers who died during poll duty, the basic education department has asked Basic Shiksha Adhikaris (BSAs) of all districts to verify the list of such teachers.
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