After Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has also come out in support of teachers opposing online attendance in government schools of Uttar Pradesh.

She has described the government decision to make online attendance mandatory a step taken in haste without full preparation.

Mayawati wrote on social media on Tuesday, “Due to acute lack of necessary basic facilities in government schools of Uttar Pradesh, complaints of poor condition have been common, on which instead of solving those serious problems by making proper budgetary provisions, the government is doing only superficial work to divert attention from it; is this right?”

She further wrote that digital attendance of teachers also seems to be a similar new step of the government which has been imposed “in haste without full preparation”.

More important than this is the recruitment of the correct and appropriate number of teachers as well as development of basic facilities so that good quality education can be ensured, she added.

The issue of digital attendance in the primary schools of the state does not seem to be resolved. Teachers of the entire state are adamant that they will not mark online attendance until their demands are met. There are protests in all the districts regarding this.

On the other hand, the chief minister has given instructions to the officials to resolve this matter. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that all the district magistrates should communicate with the local teacher representatives along with BSA and ABSA, resolve their problems and queries appropriately, receive the report from the teacher representatives and send it to the headquarters. It should be ensured that the teaching-learning continues smoothly, he added.