Order posting teachers at liquor shops for monitoring cancelled

After protest by the teacher's union, local administration in Maharashtra's Akola district cancelled the decision to post colleges teachers at liquor shops to ensure social distancing. The local administration had posted nine teachers from Shri Gadge Maharaj College at liquor stores in Murtizapur town for monitoring of social distancing by buyers which did not go down well with the teacher's organisation.

Nagpur: The administration in Maharashtra's Akola district on Thursday cancelled the decision to post colleges teachers at liquor shops to ensure social distancing following protests by their union.

After the government allowed reopening of liquor shops earlier this week, local administration posted nine teachers from Shri Gadge Maharaj College at liquor stores in Murtizapur town for monitoring of social distancing by buyers.

The decision did not go down well with the teachers' organisation which took up the issue with the government.

"We had been assigned for duty at liquor shops for monitoring and supervision of crowd and maintenance of social distancing, but now the order has been cancelled," one of the college teachers told reporters.

Tehsildar Pradip Pawar told reporters that there was a shortage of staff as personnel of revenue, agriculture and other departments were already assigned other coronavirus-related duties.

"However, we have cancelled teachers' deployment at liquor shops after the orders from the district collector. The teachers will be given other work if needed," he said.

PTI