Ludhiana, Dec. 16 -- Government primary schools across Ludhiana witnessed disruption on Monday as examinations for primary classes were conducted amid staff shortage, with many teachers exempted from attending school after election duty and several others called for rehearsal related to vote counting.

According to teachers, nearly 50 % of the teaching staff from each government school in the district had been deployed for poll duties and were officially exempted from attending school on Monday. At the same time, only a handful of teachers who were not assigned poll duty were called for rehearsal related to the counting of votes. As a result, several teachers who had been exempted from work were on Monday asked to report for duty to manag...