Atul Satpute, a primary teacher from a civic school in Ghatkopar, has shifted his online classes to evening. That’s because he is busy at a BMC kiosk at a railway station to verify vaccination certificates to help citizens buy train passes. Satpute is among nearly 200 BMC school teachers who have been assigned dual duties under their disaster management responsibility as civic body staffers.

“I started my duty here on Wednesday. We were told that this will continue until the app is ready. But there is no end date given yet,” said Satpute, claiming he had to suddenly tell his Std I students from Samrajya Nagar Hindi Medium BMC school on Tuesday that their online class would begin at 6 pm instead of 10 am.