Government School Teachers Association (GSTA) on Saturday demanded Delhi authorities salaries for the dependents of COVID-deceased academics who’re too younger to be eligible for compensatory jobs until they change into sufficiently old to be eligible. The GSTA wrote a letter to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodiya and requested to think about their calls for.
Speaking to the media, GSTA General Secretary Ajay Veer Yadav stated, “According to our estimates, at least 120 teachers have died so far, according to information submitted by district officials of the association.”
“Our number is not exact since we do not have a systematic data collection system and it is likely to be more but our district officials have spoken to these families,” he stated.
Yadav additional stated that the Delhi authorities has appointed a nodel officer who will look into the case of academics who weren’t on obligation and can course of their recordsdata and submit these to the providers division to look into compassionate appointments.
Yadav stated that they requested the Deputy CM to ease up the foundations for dependents of deceased academics in order that they’ll get compensatory jobs simply. All the deceased academics needs to be handled as they died throughout obligation.
He added that some academics died throughout quarantine at their house, their COVID-19 report was detrimental however they have been died due to the identical an infection.Â
“In this case, it is very tough to establish that they died due to COVID. Like Haryana, in Delhi too, salaries to dependents should continue for those where the deceased was the only breadwinner of the family.”
(With ANI inputs)