This story is from July 4, 2020

Delhi: No exemption for school teachers, says south corporation

South Delhi Municipal Corporation made it clear on Friday that its teachers will have to come to schools for the admission process, distribution of books and stationery and lesson planning while maintaining social distancing protocol.
Delhi: No exemption for school teachers, says south corporation
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NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation made it clear on Friday that its teachers will have to come to schools for the admission process, distribution of books and stationery and lesson planning while maintaining social distancing protocol.
The direction was issued a day after some teachers’ unions expressed objection over calling all teachers to schools during the pandemic, in addition to assigning Covid-19 duties.
Deepak Pant, secretary of Akhil Delhi Prathmik Sikshak Sangh and a teacher at a school in Ambedkar Nagar, said that the civic agency is adamant on calling the teachers to schools without making any plans.
“We met the mayor and the commissioner to express our disapproval, but got no reply so far.”
“How can we start distribution of books and stationery when the material will come around July 9. Also with most of the parents going to offices now, it is really difficult to communicate with them. We have now decided to call parents of one class on a particular day and share homework with them. Ideally, it was the administration’s job to plan this,” said Pant.
An SDMC official, meanwhile, said, “When other departments are working to full capacity, there is no question of exempting the teachers.”
On June 30, an order was issued by the education department that all teaching and non-teaching staff of SDMC and aided schools will have to come from July 1 to impart e-learning to children, distribute books and communicate with students via voice call, phone call, sms etc.
The east corporation has also issued orders but asked its teachers to report to their schools as desired by the head of school.

“There is no point in calling the teachers every day. Some of them are already on Covid-19 duties such as door-to-door survey, while others are helping at antigen centres. So the remaining teachers will come to schools for giving weekly worksheets to parents, apart from books or stationery or as desired by the school principal,” said a senior official of the east civic body.
He added, “They have also been asked to contact each student and find out if he or she is still in Delhi or have migrated. This will help us to take a decision on appointment of contractual teachers.”
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