chief minister Yogi Adityanath
BAREILLY: A prominent teachers’ union in UP said on Monday that after updating figures from various centres across the state, the number of teachers who died after contracting Covid during panchayat poll duty has been revised from the earlier 706 to 1,621.
In a letter to chief minister Yogi Adityanath, president of Prathmik Shikshak Sangh Dinsesh Chandra Sharma has demanded Rs 1crore compensation for the families of the teachers and appealed that they be called Covid warriors . The list contains the names, employee numbers and other details of the teachers. The union said that most deaths took place in May.