UP: Rs 30 Lakh for Kin of Govt Employees Who Died of COVID Within 30 Days of Poll Duty
The decision comes days after a teachers body claimed that over 1,600 teachers and workers of the Basic Education Department had died during poll duty, most of them due to COVID-19.
An ASHA worker and two others on duty at the Bikram polling booth. Photo: Pawanjot Kaur
Rights2 hours ago
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved financial assistance of Rs 30 lakh for the kin of the government employees who died during duty in the recently-held panchayat election, including those who succumbed to COVID-19 within 30 days of poll duty, a spokesperson said.
After Row on Brother s Job, UP Minister Under Scanner for Land Purchases
According to opposition parties, Satish Dwivedi and his mother have been involved in buying four plots of land worth Rs 2.37 crore for only Rs 60 lakh.
Satish Chandra Dwivedi. Photo: Facebook/Satish Chandra Dwivedi
Politics7 hours ago
Lucknow: After a controversy recently erupted over the appointment of Uttar Pradesh basic education minister Satish Chandra Dwivediâs brother as an assistant professor, the minister is now himself facing flak over his involvement in the purchase of land worth Rs 1.26 crore for a mere Rs 20 lakh. Three other plots purchased in his motherâs name after he joined office are also under the scanner.
Suman Lata’s family begged her to refuse a summons to monitor elections in Uttar Pradesh state last month but, worried about losing her job, the 49-year-old mother of three went anyway, just as India’s second coronavirus wave hit a peak.
Sprawling across north India and home to more than 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh is more populous than Brazil. Village-level elections are a huge exercise, with more than 1.3 million candidates vying for 800,000 seats in voting spread over four days in April.