Khammam instructors battle with show-cause notifications for not addressing poll duties

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KHAMMAM: Educators of Khammam, who have gotten show-cause notices from district collector R
V
Karnan for not attending to poll duties throughout Khammam Municipal Corporation elections, are struggling to justify why they skipped
duties
The 443 teachers, who have gotten notices, need to file their reply within 7 days.It refers reality that 60 percent of teachers in Khammam
district kept away from survey responsibilities
As a result, district election authorities dealt with an uphill job in mobilising personnel for election tasks
Discovering themselves in a tight spot, instructors have approached their respective unions for a service
Panchatyatraj Teachers Union Khammam district president Motukuri Madhu said due to prevailing Coronavirus, authorities should take a lenient
view of those who have actually skipped their poll duties.He said 20 percent of the teachers were, in reality, down with Coronavirus
They even have files to prove it
Some of the instructors were pregnant
Numerous might not attend to responsibilities as their near and dear had actually been affected with the infection or other ailments
There was none to take care of them, Madhu explained
Interestingly, some of the teachers are indicating the demise of 1,621 teachers who had taken care of tasks during panchayat polls in Uttar
Pradesh
They argue that the government must keep prevailing conditions in view and be lax towards with teachers