PANAJI: Teacher “cannot endanger the lives of students”, the Prima Facie High Court stated that he heard the petition submitted by teaching and non-teaching staff who were looking for vaccination to be voluntary and not mandatory.
During hearing on Thursday, the division bench from the High Court consisting of Revati Mohite Dere’s judge and Ms.
Jawalka stated that the teachers were not forced to take vaccines because they had been given the option to produce RT-PCR certificates at their own costs.
, and must work together.
Advocate General Devidas Pangam said that individual rights must be set aside in this matter and bench added that mandatory testing is to protect the health of students.
The bench said that vaccination is obligatory even if there is a job and asking for public advocates whether other courts have given orders in the same case.
Advocating Gaurish Malik who represents the Applicant seeking earlier hearing for temporary assistance for teachers who state that the school has begun in offline mode and after the second circular issued by the Directorate of Education.
The applicant has handed over the Indian and ICMR unity has not submitted their response to their direct petition and added that taking RT-PCR tests every week, even if they do not show any symptoms, “will cause their health severe.
Problems”.
“They also have to bear the costs for RT-PCR every week so that they cause financial difficulties while there is no coercion imposed on students.
Personal laboratories impose an average of RS 2,500 per RT-PCR test.” They have also submitted to the High Court that they are.
Made to stand in queues with symptomatic patients and sometimes driven from the test center and told to report only if they have symptoms.
The applicant has resulted in RTI’s replies from the ICMR which stated that “repeated testing at intervals that very often can cause injuries in the nasal cavity and throat”.
They also stated that doctors at the Covid-19 hospital and at the Goa Medical College who came close to positive patients more susceptible to infection, but there was no circular on the similar lines issued by the Directorate of Health Services for them.
Teaching and non-teaching staff have suggested that other prevention steps were adopted and that the government made provisions for free RT-PCR testing facilities.
They also searched for the circular of the educational directorate.
The latest circular issued by the Directorate of Education on October 8 about conducting an offline exam for secondary schools register conditions that must be strictly obeyed.
It states that only staff who are vaccinated (teaching and non-teaching both) are permitted at the school.
“Those who cannot produce a vaccination certificate must be permitted after generating a negative report from the RT-PCR test.
The report applies to seven days and new reports will be produced after the seventh day,” Bhushan K Savaikar’s education director stated in a circle.
The petition will appear to hear next week.