Election Duty: Don’t depute teachers; Education Department requests BBMP

Election Duty: School teachers will be assigned for election work. The Commissioner of School Education Department has written to the BBMP asking them not to depute their teachers for voter list revision and other work.

The Commissioner has written to the Special Commissioner of BBMP citing the Supreme Court directives that the appointment of teachers is restricted to such work.

“We have fixed 244 working days considering public holidays, Dussehra and summer vacation. 64 days are reserved for conducting extra-curricular activities, examinations and assessment tasks. But deputing them for election-related work will disturb and affect the schedule. The quality of teaching also decreases. Therefore, we request that teachers should not be assigned to such jobs.”

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a ‘yellow’ alert for Mumbai, predicting heavy rainfall at isolated places on Friday. In Maharashtra’s Palghar and Thane, a holiday has been for all the primary, secondary and higher secondary schools on Friday in view of the heavy rainfall alert.

The IMD has issued a ‘red’ alert for Mumbai till 8:30am on Friday. Very heavy rain is likely over Mumbai city and adjoining areas, the IMD said in its bulletin. Modak Sagar lake, one of the seven lakes that supply water to Mumbaikars, started overflowing on Thursday at 10:52pm. This was the fourth fresh water supplying lake to overflow after Tulsi lake, Vehar lake and Tansa lake.

As a result of incessant rainfall in the catchment area, the Tansa dam started overflowing and 15 of its gates were opened, from where 1,65,000 cusecs of water was being discharged, officials said. In neighbouring Palghar district, 8,400 cusecs water was being released from Dhamani dam and 21,100 cusecs from the Kawadas dam.

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