Gorakhpur: The district president of the UP main school teachers’ association has promised that 52 educators and a single employee expired because of Covid on election duty at Gorakhpur and declared the institution’s requirement for Rs 1 crore compensation to the kin of the deceased. “Our 46 educators, five shiksha mitras, one particular educator and a single accountant had been contaminated while on panchayat election obligation and expired. When people include their family , that got infected for these, then the death toll could cross 200. Our institution has demanded Rs 1 crore reimbursement for the kin of the deceased,” said district president, UP Main teachers’ institution, Rajesh Dhar Dubey. “All across the country, over 1,600 staff and teachers on survey duty expired because of pandemic. Our marriage had required postponement of elections dreading casualties. The marriage had decided to not go on restricting obligation and required its postponement, but relented because of Supreme Court order and pledge of after 100 percent Covid protocol,”Dubey added. “Regrettably, as images from counting places show, no actual distancing was followed closely and Covid protocols weren’t followed because of that we dropped our personnel into Covid. Most in Gorakhpur district obtained contaminated through practice, polling and counting and 53 missing their own lives,” he maintained.