Urbana housing complex organised a camp to vaccinate 51 teachers and non-teaching staff of a school for the underprivileged on Monday.

Madurdaha Satyabriti Vidyalaya, an English-medium school close to the highrise, runs classes till VII. More than 400 students from slums in Madurdaha study in the school.

“Most of the non-teaching employees in the school are underprivileged,” said Mousumi Kar, who has been teaching at the school for 25 years. “The husbands of many non-teaching employees are carpenters and masons. They had lost their livelihood during the lockdown and are yet to recover financially.”

Fifty-one persons, including teachers and non-teaching staff and their family members, got their first dose as part of the drive conducted in collaboration with the AMRI Hospitals group.

An official of the residents’ association of Urbana said they had conducted multiple camps to vaccinate 1,200 of their residents.

The association held a three-day vaccination camp from June 4 at Urbana Club to inoculate around 450 members of the support staff of the complex. “Monday (June 7) was marked for the teachers and non-teaching staff of Madurdaha Satyabriti Vidyalaya,” said the official.

The school, run by an NGO named Dakshini Prayas, was started 28 years ago with four students. Classes were conducted at a neighbourhood club till the school had its own building, said an official of the school.

A resident of Urbana said they had been “taking care of the school expenses” for the last 10 years.