THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A complete of 1,707 lecturers and non-teaching employees within the state haven’t taken the Covid vaccine, Basic Training Minister V Sivankutty has stated. These staff have been served show-cause discover and those that don’t give passable causes can go on go away with out pay, he added.
After the federal government began toughening its stance in opposition to unvaccinated faculty employees, their quantity dwindled from over 5,000 final week to 1,707. The best variety of lecturers and non-teaching employees who haven’t taken the vaccine is in Malappuram whereas the bottom is in Wayanad.
The 1,707 unvaccinated employees contains 1,495 lecturers and 212 non-teaching employees. Whereas 1,255 faculty employees within the decrease major, higher major and highschool sections haven’t taken the vaccine, the variety of unvaccinated employees within the greater secondary and vocational greater secondary part was 223 and 229 respectively.
“RT-PCR take a look at each week will likely be necessary for lecturers and non-teaching employees. Those that can not take the vaccine on account of medical circumstances equivalent to allergy ought to produce a certificates from a authorities physician,” the minister stated.
Although the federal government had earlier determined to publicise the names of the instructing and non-teaching employees, it determined in opposition to such a transfer within the wake of requests from lecturers’ unions. The federal government as an alternative launched district-wise figures of the unvaccinated employees.
The minister additionally stated that differently-abled college students in colleges in addition to particular colleges can attend offline lessons from December 8. College uniforms will likely be made obligatory from December 13 to keep away from confusion over college students’ concession in buses.
The minister additionally introduced that 72 new Plus-I batches have been sanctioned in 21 taluks the place there’s a scarcity of seats. This contains one batch in science, 61 batches in humanities and 10 commerce batches.
Centre flags mortality charge in 4 districts
T’Puram: The Ministry of Well being and Household Affairs has directed the state well being secretary to maintain a watch on 4 districts which reported extra variety of Covid deaths within the final two weeks. Union Well being Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote to state Well being Principal Secretary Rajan Khobragade about rising variety of deaths in Thrissur, Malappuram, Kozhikode and Kollam districts and directed him to provoke steps to cut back fatality.
