With the election dates closing in Rajasthan, the government teachers are finding new and innovative excuses to skip the election duty.
With the election dates closing in Rajasthan, the government teachers are finding new and innovative excuses to skip the election duty.
The temperature in the month of December in Choru, Rajasthan is extremely low and doing election duty during this month is really painful. From wedding to honeymoon, teachers are giving all sorts of excuses to avoid election duty. Some women teachers have even given delivery date as a excuse to avoid election duties.
District Election Officer, Muktananda Agarwal is having tough time to convince teachers to do their duties during election.
The incident is from Churu district where election will take place on 7th December.
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A newly wed teacher Rajdeep Lamba has been exempted from doing the election duty as his honeymoon tickets were already booked. Rajdeep got married on 19th November and his honeymoon ticket worth Rs. 1.5 lakh was pre booked.
Rajdeep along with his wife Anjali will be going to Mauritius from 29th Nov to 10 Dec. They requested Election officer to exempt them from election work as they had planned this holiday from long time. Anjali too is a government teacher and will be skipping the election duties.
Both Rajdeep and Anjali thanked the District Election Officer for releasing them from election duty for their honeymoon. District Election Officer, Muktananda Agarwal had seen their wedding card and flight tickets before granting the release.
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Apart from Rajdeep, one more teacher Aazad Soni has been released from election duty due to his medical condition.
District Election Officer, says it's very difficult for him to make these teachers do election duty. Teachers find all sort of excuses to avoid election duty. He has rejected most of the requested and approved only two after investigating.
Voting to elect new assemblies in Rajasthan would be held on December 7 and the counting of votes would take place on December 11.
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