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.