‘Can EC do whatever it wants?’: HC on deputing teachers for SIR in Delhi
Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia directed the EC to file a short affidavit after hearing the PIL plea filed by advocates Rajesh Kumar Gogna and Ashok Agarwal. The plea questioned whether government school teachers could be mandatorily assigned election duties.On July 22, Suman Lata, 51, a teacher at a Municipal Corporation of Delhi primary school and assigned BLO duties, died of a heart attack, her family said. He said teachers receive honorarium and compensation for the work, adding that only 10-14% of teachers are ultimately deployed.“If a request is made for nine teachers, the school deploys only three to four.
- ▪Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia directed the EC to file a short affidavit after hearing the PIL plea filed by advocates Rajesh Kumar Gogna and Ashok Agarwal.
- ▪The plea questioned whether government school teachers could be mandatorily assigned election duties.On July 22, Suman Lata, 51, a teacher at a Municipal Corporation of Delhi primary school and assigned BLO duties, died of a heart attack, h
- ▪He said teachers receive honorarium and compensation for the work, adding that only 10-14% of teachers are ultimately deployed.“If a request is made for nine teachers, the school deploys only three to four.
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The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the Election Commission’s (EC) response to a public interest litigation (PIL) plea challenging the “large-scale” deployment of government school teachers as Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) and enumeration staff for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital.A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia directed the EC to file a short affidavit after hearing the PIL plea filed by advocates Rajesh Kumar Gogna and Ashok Agarwal. The plea questioned whether government school teachers could be mandatorily assigned election duties.On July 22, Suman Lata, 51, a teacher at a Municipal Corporation of Delhi primary school and assigned BLO duties, died of a heart attack, her family said.
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