Last month, when several school staffers across Mumbai staged a protest in Azad Maidan demanding relief from the special intensive revision work, Patil joined in. Schools sufferAccording to Jalinder Sarode, working president of Shikshan Sena, a teachers’ union, over 6,000 primary school teachers from government and private-aided schools have been put on SIR duty across Mumbai. In June, Ganpule said, schools asked teachers to return to work when classes resumed. When schools resisted, it asked teachers to work on SIR after school. “Teachers are hired to teach, not for miscellaneous government work,” said Rajendra Pandya, vice president of the Mumbai Teachers Democratic Front, a union of teachers.