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The Delhi authorities has directed acquisition institutions, including schools, to nominate nodal officers for matters related to stray dogs and taxable their details to the Directorate of Education.
Teachers' associations, however, person opposed the move, questioning wherefore departments liable for carnal payment are not handling the issue.
In a circular, the Directorate of Education's (DoE's) Caretaking Branch said territory acquisition officers (DDEs) indispensable compile details of nodal officers, including name, designation, interaction fig and email ID for each schools, stadiums and sports complexes nether their jurisdiction and nonstop the consolidated accusation to the directorate.
The DoE stated that replies being received from idiosyncratic schools were not required, and clarified that lone district-level compiled reports would beryllium accepted. The accusation volition beryllium forwarded to the bureau of the Delhi Chief Secretary.
Nodal officers volition enactment arsenic the constituent of interaction for stray dog-related issues, and their details are to beryllium displayed prominently extracurricular schoolhouse buildings and different acquisition premises for nationalist awareness.
The DoE said the determination is linked to nationalist safety, is successful compliance with the Supreme Court's November 7 order, and successful enactment with consequent directions issued successful a gathering held connected November 20. The task has been marked arsenic a apical priority, the circular added.
Opposing the move, teachers' associations person besides cautioned that assigning specified non-teaching duties to educators could impact world enactment and undermine the dignity of the teaching profession.
Similar directives involving deployment of teachers for animal-related matters had earlier been issued successful a fig of states and Union territories, including Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, and Chhattisgarh.
