Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Association calls for medical advantages for contractual academics

The Contractual Teachers Welfare Association of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH Union Territory) has demanded that academics doing Covid-related work must be coated beneath well being and time period insurance coverage scheme.
The affiliation claimed that previously one month, 9 academics died of Covid and yet another instructor died on Thursday.
President of the affiliation, JR Rathod, and different members of affiliation on Thursday handed a memorandum to the district collector, mentioning that for the reason that pandemic started, over 700 contractual academics of presidency major and higher major faculties in DNH work for door-to-door surveys and different Covid work.
Rathod mentioned, “There are around 700 teachers working in 282 primary and upper primary government schools in DNH. Permanent teachers serving in schools get a monthly salary of around Rs 70,000 while contractual teachers who have served 10 or 15 years get around Rs 30,000. The administration should give medical financial facilities to the teachers who are doing Covid work. Most of them are lone earning members in their families. From April till date, 10 teachers died due to Covid in DNH.”
The memorandum added that the academics doing Covid work additionally threat the well being of their relations. It demanded that contractual academics be offered the identical monetary advantages as everlasting academics.

The 10 academics who died of Covid, as per the affiliation, are Kishan Patel (Othla village college), Vandanaben Dhimmer (Velu village college), Ramanbhai Bhansara (Sety village college) Savjibhai Bhoya (Naroli village college), Narendra Gaud (Apti village college), Sumitra Patel (Chikhla village college), Panna Patel (Khutli village college), Lakhibhai Jadav and Gulab Vaghad (Mandoni village college) and Parag Vaghmare (Galanda village college).