Government school teachers have accused the state government of playing with their lives by assigning them Covid-19 duty at critical areas without providing them enough protective gear at a time when the second wave of the pandemic is taking a heavy toll and demanded they be provided with special insurance cover.
Airing their concerns, two teachers’ outfits wrote letters to chief minister Hemant Soren and chief secretary Sukhdev Singh on Friday demanding their immediate intervention at a time when at least a dozen government staffers had died in the last 10 days.
The Akhil Bharatiya Prathamik Sikshak Sangh (ABPSB), a state level outfit of primary school teachers, told the chief secretary that several teachers had been assigned duty at ICUs, CCUs, and other departments in Covid care centres across the the state but without the necessary safeguards.
Missing labourer Birsai Mahato s wife Rinky Devi showing her husband s picture at her residence in Chokad village in Ramgarh
RANCHI: More than a week after the Chamoli glacial break in Uttarakhand, family members of the 14 persons from Jharkhand who are still missing have lost hopes of their return and are trying to come to terms with reality, while battling health issues caused by the shock. Nine persons from Lohardaga, four from Ramgarh and one from Bokaro, who were deployed at NTPC’s project site in Tapovan, went missing in the flash floods triggered by the glacier break last Sunday.
From Ramgarh’s Gola block, Birsai Mahto, Kuldeep Mahto, Madam Mahto and Jitendra Kumar who are still traceless. Talking to TOI over phone on Monday, Birsay’s nephew Vikrant said, “We don’t have any hope of anyone returning. All that we are waiting is to get the formalities done so that the affected families can get compensation.” Kuldeep and Madam’s wives were released from the hospit