1.25 lakh teachers, 25000 non-teaching staff attend schools amid Covid spike
Jammu Tawi, Apr 22: While the administration is trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by implementing five pillared strategy—nearly sixty thousands government teachers in Kashmir make their ways to reach respective schools only to teach students through online classes. This has put a question mark on the much touted slogan of UT—“Break the Chain.”
Besides the teaching staff, we have learnt that nearly 15,000 non-teaching staff was also attending the schools amid surge in COVID-19 cases.
Top officials of the School Education Department told that nearly 1.25 lakh teachers and twenty five thousand non-teaching staff were working in the department
“In Jammu and Kashmir there are more than 23,000 government schools in which nearly 1.25 lakh teachers are posted that include nearly 65,000 in Jammu and 60,000 in Kashmir,” the officials said.
Meanwhile, the top officials of the Jammu and Kashmir Disaster Management Committee informed that the government departments will function normally.
“As of now, as far as the roaster for half of the attendance of employees is concerned, we have no proposal or plan to devise a mechanism of roasters for the government departments,” the official said.
Meanwhile, the government teachers said that the department has the highest number of employees after the police department.
“The government could have easily charted out a mechanism to slow down the COVID-19 among the teachers. In Jammu and Kashmir, the School Education Department is the second leading sector with the highest number of employees,” said one of the teachers.
He said, “There are more chances of spreading the virus when over one lakh teachers at a time are leaving for the schools to attend their professional duties.
