Process on to give Rs 30L ex gratia, job to kin of three teachers: Minister

The state basic education department would soon issue ex gratia payment of Rs 30 lakh each to the next of kin of three government schoolteachers who died on panchayat poll duty and give a government job to an eligible candidate of each family, minister of state for basic education (independent charge) Satish Chand Dwivedi said on Wednesday. The minister also took a swipe at opposition leaders on the issue.

LUCKNOW: The state basic education department would soon issue ex gratia payment of Rs 30 lakh each to the next of kin of three government schoolteachers who died on panchayat poll duty and give a government job to an eligible candidate of each family, minister of state for basic education (independent charge) Satish Chand Dwivedi said on Wednesday. The minister also took a swipe at opposition leaders on the issue.

“The state government is with the grieving teachers’ families. The process of providing Rs 30 lakh and a government job to kin is being done on priority. Their other arrears will be cleared on priority,” the minister said. “Some teachers associations are claiming that the number of teachers who passed way during panchayat election duty is 1621, which is totally false and baseless. Opposition leaders are using this misleading information to engage in dirty politics,” he said.

The minister claimed that only three teachers passed away during election duty as per the district magistrates’ reports sought by the state election commission.

UP minister hits back at Priyanka

Minister of state for basic education (independent charge) Satish Chand Dwivedi hit back at Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi

Vadra’s tweet in which she talked about insensitivity on the part of the UP government for saying only three teachers died on poll duty against the list of 1621 government school staff given by a teachers’ association.

Dwivedi said, “Distraught Congress has always done politics over dead bodies to come to power either by hook or crook. The Sikh massacre of 1984 is an example of this.”

Another tweet by him reads, “Even in the difficult times of epidemic, instead of standing with the people of the country and the state, both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are constantly issuing statements that is demoralising the citizens. This is what they are doing.”