Satish Aditya
Motihari : According to an official report, a total of 22 Government Primary School teachers including 5 women teachers died due to Covid-19 in
East Champaran District in North Bihar between April 5 and May 10, 2021, during second wave of the pandemic.
District Education Officer (DEO), East Champaran, Awadhesh Kumar Singh, confirmed the death of 22 primary school teachers due to Covid-19 and sent
the list of deceased to the Education Separtment of Bihar Government on May 10, 2021. Most of them were contract teachers.
Jai Prakash Singh, vice president of Bihar Panchayat Nagar Praramvik Shikshak Sangh, alleged that these contractual teachers had not been paid their salary by the government for the last four months. The state government has shut the primary schools till May 15 but teachers were required to be present at their respective schools on rotation basis and were infected with coronavirus and died. The East Champaran District Teachers Association has demanded a compensation of Rs 50 lakh each to next of kin the deceased.