UP To Pay Rs 30 Lakh To Families Of 2,000 Dead Of Covid After Poll Duty

An official said that in the panchayat polls, over 11 lakh government employees were put on duty and among them 65 per cent were teachers.

The Uttar Pradesh government will give Rs 30 lakh as compensation to the family of each of its over 2,000 employees, half of them teachers, who died due to Covid during the panchayat polls duty. Earlier, the state government had claimed that only 74 government employees, including three teachers, had died during the poll duty. The Uttar Pradesh Prathamik Shikshak Sangh had released a list of 1,621 primary schoolteachers and other staff, claiming that they died after contracting COVID-19 while performing election duty between April 15 and May 5. The decision came after the government revised its norms.