new delhi the physical education teachers of the education departments south west a district did not go to their schools on monday instead they reached rangpuri for a peculiar duty they had to guard a plot for a school building that was being cleared of encroachment this unheard of deployment vexed the government school teachers association whose protest allowed the pe teachers to be relieved from the ignominious work around noonbut that is not the end of the story while the teachers opposition may have earned them a respite the education department has now circulated a list of 10 schools who are to send their estate managers and a security guard each to rangpuri from tuesday until further orders estate managers mostly retired army officers are appointed by institutions to oversee the cleanliness and sanitation and other administrative aspects of their schoolsa pe teacher grumbled in close to 30 years of service this is the first time we were allotted such work we are a teaching cadre not sports coaches we were told our work there was to click photos and document them but our question is why cant the administration do this with the help of police everyone knows such encroachment removal drives are riskfilled as it is on sunday the encroachers pelted stones at the bulldozerthe pe teachers were summoned for the special duty by deputy director of education dde sanjay chaturvedi with some claiming they had to report to rangpuri even on sunday chaturvedis order read as directed by higher authorities all the heads of schools under district southwest a are to depute their pets at rangpuri plot number 662 school site all the pets are directed to be available at the abovementioned site at 930am on monday and remain there till 530 pm the routine of reporting at 930am and staying till 530pm shall continue till any further directions in this regardhowever chaturvedi claimed to toi the teachers were called for a meeting as we have an event coming up the teachers came and left in 10 minutes south west a educational district has two zones in which zone 19 has 17 schools and zone 20 has 24 many of these being girls schoolsgsta has objected to the order and complained to the lieutenant governor and the director directorate of education on social media platforms the dde verbally said the teachers neednt go but in view of the written order the principals had to send the pe teachers to the spot on monday said ajay yadav general secretary gsta are the teachers bouncers why should they do such work who will take responsibility if anything happens to the teachers