Teachers have gone to the Directorate of Education (DoE) for the possible postponement of their classes till June as the heatwaves in the north settle.
The Municipal Corporation teachers association has raised their concerns about students falling sick due to the heatwaves in the country’s capital while they attend the school’s ‘Mission Buniyad’ during their summer vacations.
Mission Buniyad is a government-run program, which is implemented in all civic schools in Delhi to address the ‘learning gaps’ among students that rose during the two years of the pandemic as physical classes were not happening.
They also raised the issue of them not getting proper meals. The teachers have thus taken this issue to the Directorate of Education (DoE) and requested them to postpone the student’s classes till July.
According to their academic calendar, they do not get mid-day meals in school. Ramnivas Solanki, general secretary of the association spoke on the issue and stated, “Students in MCD schools come from low-income backgrounds, and getting a meal is their basic premise of coming to school. Over the past few days, some students have fallen sick which is affecting their attendance. We have requested the Delhi government to postpone classes to July,” said Ramnivas Solanki, general secretary of the association.
North Corporation commissioner Sanjay Goel said that the civic body is providing two bananas each to students during the break as they also sympathize with the situation. In his statement, he said, “We are providing bananas from our resources. So far, we haven’t got any complaints of students falling sick. During the vacation, we don’t get mid-day meal provisions, as food grains from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) are available only for 210 days a year,”
The temperature in the country’s capital is on the high for almost 2 weeks now, on 13th May (Thursday) the temperature in the weather touched 48 degrees. The weather department went forward and put a ‘Yellow’ alert warning of heatwaves in most parts of Delhi on Friday and Saturday.
Amidst the whole debacle over the increasing heatwaves, the southwest monsoon is expected to come early with Andaman and Nicobar Islands expecting to receive the first showers on May 15th. Rainfall is also predicted over Tamil Nadu, Kerela, Puducherry, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Meghalaya till May 17th.
