The UP panchayat elections were performed at a huge scale in four phases on April 15, 19, 26, and 29 in 75 districts. Around 1.3 million candidates were within the fray for spherical 800,000 posts, including 3,050 zila panchayat wards, over 75,000 kshetra panchayat wards and over 700,000 gram panchayat wards.
Around 1.5 million folks cast their votes at 80,762 polling booths, where four polling officers and two safety personnel or dwelling guards were deployed each. Around 50% employees used to be to be saved in reserve. “Around 300,000 lecturers were assigned to election responsibilities within the bid,” mentioned Pawan Shankar Dixit, treasurer, Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh, Uttar Pradesh (RSMUP), an RSS affiliate.
“I wrote to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on March 27 asking for needed vaccination of all these lecturers within the bid who are supposed to protect in election responsibilities. However the government turned a blind glance to the attraction,” mentioned RSMUP chief Virendra Mishra while adding that no circulate used to be taken.
The polling officers that included lecturers and shiksha mitras or para-lecturers, were expert from April 9 to April 15.
Irrespective of the ultimate efforts of unions of bid lecturers, allegedly no effort used to be made by the bid government to substantiate Covid safety for lecturers who were polling officers.
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