Maharashtra Assembly polls: Schools in Mumbai demand holiday day after voting

A elder teacher from a schoolhouse successful Kurla, who volition enactment astatine a polling presumption connected Wednesday, said, “We volition not beryllium escaped until midnight connected Wednesday. And successful bid to marque the arrangements for polling day, astir of america worked connected Tuesday excessively astatine polling stations. These agelong hours marque it hard to study aboriginal successful the greeting to schools connected Thursday.”

While teachers person voiced their concerns, the Mumbai School Principals’ Association has demanded a vacation connected the time aft voting. Secretary of the association, Pandurang Kengar said, “Teachers enactment nether tremendous unit for agelong hours connected voting day, which is extracurricular of their superior occupation description. In specified situations, it is inappropriate to expect them to study backmost to teaching successful schools the adjacent day. Almost each schools commencement aboriginal successful the morning. Additionally, with inadequate staff, schools are not capable to relation astatine afloat capacity.”

Last week, the bureau of Commissioner of Education, Suraj Mandhare had issued directives regarding the 2 days earlier voting. According to that order, schoolhouse principals were allowed to state holidays connected November 18 oregon 19 if they did not person capable unit owed to the election. But determination was nary directive astir November 21 which according to teachers is the astir required vacation arsenic they are tired.

When his was contacted bureau astir schools’ request for a holiday, Mandhare denied that it would beryllium considered and said, “There is nary specified precedent since 1952.”