Indian Teachers Face Stress from Election Duties

In India, government school teachers are often given extra jobs like helping with elections.

This means they have to leave their schools and do important work for the government.

This can be very stressful and some teachers have even gotten sick or passed away because of it.

While they are doing this work, the students in their schools miss out on classes.

This has been happening for a long time, even since the British ruled India.

The government thinks of teachers as workers who can do many different jobs, not just teaching.

This is different from teachers in private schools, who usually don't have to do these extra jobs.

The Right to Education law was supposed to stop this, but it still allows teachers to be used for election work.

This means that children in government schools often miss classes, which can affect their learning.

It's a big problem that doesn't get much attention.