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Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers’ Federation submitted a petition to the Madurai District Election Officer and Collector K. J. Praveen Kumar present connected Wednesday requesting exemption from polling serviceman duties for circumstantial categories of authorities employees and teachers arsenic recommended by the Election Commission of India.
The demands further included permitting pistillate teachers to service wrong their respective Assembly Constituencies and providing indispensable basal amenities, including transportation, for polling personnel.
P. Srinivasan, District Secretary, Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers’ Federation, said, arsenic the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly predetermination is scheduled to instrumentality spot successful a azygous signifier connected April 23, to contented assignment orders for polling presumption duties, idiosyncratic illustration forms person been collected from each teachers and authorities employees based connected the payroll system.
He added that the election duty be exempted for radical arsenic per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and Election Commission guidelines.
As per that, helium said, persons with disabilities with implicit 40% carnal impairment, individuals with ocular impairments oregon debased vision, those with lone six months of work remaining earlier retirement, large women and nursing mothers with infants nether 1 twelvemonth of age, employees who person undergone bosom oregon kidney transplants and those suffering from terrible crab oregon undergoing kidney dialysis should exempted.
In addition, Mr. Srinivasan, said, they requested that pistillate teachers assigned to predetermination work beryllium stationed arsenic polling officers wrong the aforesaid Assembly Constituency wherever they were already working.
“Proper arrangements indispensable beryllium made for proscription to and from polling stations, on with the proviso of nutrient and different indispensable basal facilities,” helium added.
Necessary measures should beryllium taken to guarantee that each teachers and authorities employees engaged successful predetermination enactment person their postal ballots without fail, he stated.
