Every morning, teacher Vikas Kumar texts video lessons to his students before going to his second job as an untrained, frontline coronavirus worker.
The 27-year-old normally teaches physical education but, like thousands of other government teachers in New Delhi, he was deployed to the pandemic frontline when the virus started spreading in India last March.Since June, Kumar has filled a number of roles alongside his teaching duties. First, he said he distributed ration kits to the poor, then he was assigned to conduct door-to-door surveys of neighbors of confirmed Covid cases.
Country has 2nd highest Covid-19 cases. See their vaccine plan 02:19When some schools were turned into hunger relief centers, Alka Sharma, Additional Commissioner of East DMC, an administrative official for the district, says engaging teachers in the work"made sense."However, since then teachers have been enlisted to do a wider variety of pandemic duties.
Meet the Michelin star chef who feeds millions amid pandemic 02:29"The children wanted to do something nice for Christmas. We coax them but we have no answers for them. It's so bad that now I'm worried I won't be able to pay their school fees."The lack of pay extends to teachers in East DMC, according to Singh, from NNSS teachers' union, who is also the principal of a school in East DMC. She said teachers there have not received their salaries since September.
Pollution and Covid-19: Delhi hit by 'double whammy' 02:21"Teachers belong to one of the noble professions and, as they are made to do Covid-19 duty also, they can be equated to Covid-19 warriors," the judges said.The court ordered the North DMC to pay the salaries owed to teachers, but the teachers and their unions say they haven't received any payments since July.
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The world has NEVER seen the lack of respect for human life in favour of greed and political ambition as it has in 2020.. Thankfully many of the sociopathic liars have been revealed as a result. Let's NEVER forget their names.
This guy is responsible.
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