JAIPUR: Among the 18 categories of professionals who have been included in the list of Covid warriors by the state government, teachers have been excluded.
Currently, more than 1 lakh government teachers are conducting a door-to-door survey to to prepare a list of people suffering from fever or Covid symptoms.Narayan Singh Sisodia, spokesperson of Rajasthan Rajasthan Shikshak Evam Panchayati Raj Karamchari Sangh said, “This is a discrimination to employees of a profession, who from day one has been helping others and supporting the government in the fight against Covid. There is a need to vaccinate all government teachers. This is such an unjust behavior of the government who have completely ignored us.”
Siddharth Mahajan, secretary of medical, health and family welfare, could not be contacted.
Former education minister and BJP MLA from Ajmer Vasudev Devnani said this was sheer ignorance of the government towards teachers. “When lakhs of teachers are working day and night for the government, why aren’t the government teachers given any priority? This is injustice towards them and state government should make their stance clear whether they care about the teachers or not,” said Devnani.
