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Mumbai: With Maharashtra grappling with a second wave of the pandemic, the state government has extended to June 30, the Rs 50-lakh ex gratia for the families of its staffers, including schoolteachers and police personnel, who died on Covid duty. The scheme had lapsed on December 31, 2020.
More than 220 teachers from civic, government and aided schools in the state have died of Covid-19, of which 200 deaths were reported in March and April, said Shivnath Darade, secretary, Maharashtra Rajya Shikshak Parishad.
In Mumbai, 15 of the over 300 primary schoolteachers on duty at quarantine centres have succumbed to the virus. Teachers in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region have to do contact-tracing work, visit patients in home quarantine and double up as nurses and ward boys at quarantine centres. “Teachers are doing a lot of Covid-related work, but are not provided PPE kits,” claimed Darade, adding that the kin of teachers who died last year have still not received c