chandigarhUpdated: Oct 08, 2020 23:13 ISTMembers of Revolutionary Parents’ Welfare Association led by its president Bhagwant Singh wrote a letter to Ludhiana deputy commissioner (DC) Varinder Sharma over reopening of schools. The association urged the DC to direct schools to conduct Covid-19 tests of their staff members. The association also alleged that schools were “escaping from their responsibility of ensuring safety and security of the children and asking parents to submit self-declaration forms mentioning that the schools will not be held responsible if any of students tested positive for Covid-19”. Bhagwant Singh sought the formation of a seven-member committee comprising parents, which would examine if the classrooms were being sanitised properly and check the Covid-19 test reports of the staffers. The parents’ body also demanded that the government officials whose children were going to schools should make public their self-declaration forms so that the other parents could follow them and would not hesitate in sending their wards to schools during the pandemic.

Source: Hindustan Times October 08, 2020 17:43 UTC