Ex gratia sought for COVID victim

The Telangana State United Teachers’ Federation (TS-UTF) district committee has demanded that the State government sanction ₹50 lakh ex gratia to the bereaved family of social science teacher M Jagade

The Telangana State United Teachers’ Federation (TS-UTF) district committee has demanded that the State government sanction ₹50 lakh ex gratia to the bereaved family of social science teacher M Jagadeesh, 35, of the Zilla Parishad High School at Chennur in Kallur mandal, who died of COVID-19 on Thursday. In a statement, TS-UTF district general secretary P Nageswara Rao said Jagadeesh had attended the Khammam Municipal Corporation poll duty held recently. He subsequently contracted coronavirus and died at a hospital here on Thursday. Several teachers, who had performed the election duty amid the pandemic, contracted the deadly virus and some of them fell victim to the highly contagious disease, he said, seeking sanction of Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia each to the kin of those teachers, who died due to COVID-19. He wanted the government to bear all the medical expenses of the teachers undergoing treatment for COVID-19.