UP Govt Offers Rs 30 Lakh Ex-gratia To Kin Of 135 Polling Staff Who Died Due To COVID

In a significant reduction for polls employees’ households who succumbed to COVID, the Uttar Pradesh govt introduced a compensation of Rs 30 lakhs on Thursday. The Allahabad HC which has taken cognizance of 135 polling officers’ demise was knowledgeable of the choice by the UP govt. The HC had issued a discover to the Yogi govt after 135 Teachers, Shiksha Mitras and Investigators had succumbed to COVID whereas on ballot obligation for the lately concluded Panchayat polls.

The largest tragedy in UP amid COVID has been the demise of 700 college workers who died resulting from COVID whereas on ballot obligation for UP Panchayat polls. As per studies,  the Uttar Pradeshiya Prathmik Shikshak Sangh has written to UP CM Adityanath and SEC, itemizing names of all of the deceased who died resulting from contracting COVID-19 on ballot obligation, demanding to defer relying on May 2. The Allahabad High Court had pulled up the Yogi govt over the deaths asking why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to it for not imposing Covid protocols. In reply, the state authorities has denied the allegations and stated it has no proof that the lecturers died throughout ballot obligation and maintained that it didn’t wish to maintain the panchayat elections, however was pressured to conduct it earlier than 30 April resulting from an HC order.