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New Delhi: In Bihar, teachers now reportedly have to count stray dogs apart from the already assigned census duties, Booth Level Officer (BLO) work, and caste surveys. The directive has created a sense of discontent among the teachers who are already struggling with their workload and are barely getting time to teach in the classroom.
In Bihar's Rohtas district, the Sasaram Municipal Corporation has reportedly issued a directive, ordering all schools operating within its limits to appoint a nodal officer, a teacher, to collect and share data related to stray dogs.
The nodal teacher will inform about the stray dogs present within the school premises and also around it. The teacher will also have to note their condition, and also tell about how to control them. The civic body will reportedly form a dog pound to manage the population of stray dogs. Sasaram Municipal Commissioner Vikas Kumar has reportedly said that they issued the directive as per the government guidelines.
Earlier in Delhi, a row erupted after online posts and videos claimed that teachers were being forced to count stray dogs on or near school grounds. On December 30, the Delhi Directorate of Education issued a formal clarification slamming the information as fake.
The department has dismissed the allegations as "misleading, false, and fabricated." It later approached the police after the claim refused to die down. Director of Education Veditha Reddy clarified that there was no such order and characterized the claims as a "deliberate and well-planned attempt" to malign the department rather than routine political criticism.
