Kolkata:
Around 500 ‘eligible’ teachers, whose jobs were canceled after an order from the Supreme Court, which invalidated the jobs of about 26,000 teachers, rally in the city on Thursday, demanding that they should not be punished and club with ‘tainted’.
Mehboob Mondal, one of the spokespersons of ‘Jogyo Sikshak Manch’ (eligible teacher forum), said to PTI, “We voice the demands of teachers worth hitting the streets to hit the streets to hit the streets that they should not be punished for the failure of the School Services Commission (SSC).
“We were taken by the police to hand over a deputation to the office of the office of the District Inspector of Education in the city and were kicked by a police officer. We could not democratically oppose the democratically against snatching our jobs due to large scale corruption by the state government. So we are not on the roads.
Asked if they would join the relay Hunger strike with another group of eligible teachers in front of the SSC office building, Mr. Mondal said, “We will decide after this program. If they (fasting teachers) are also eligible, we will be with them. Let us find out. Let us find out,” he said.
He also clarified that the forum is not connected to another section of teachers who are staging SIT-in in Sahid Minar, but will support the legitimate demand of any qualified candidate.
While a rally reached aspladed via Central Avenue, another rally was taken out in Sealdah, covering a distance of more than 2 km and converted to the same location.
A strong police force was present in saving two rallies, but there was no untoward incident as the teachers studying ‘We Want Back Your Job’ read Plancards and ‘SSC should come out with the list of tainted/unpublished candidates.
The Supreme Court upheld a 2024 Calcutta High Court verdict on 3 April, canceled the recruitment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching employees appointed by SSC in 2016 through a recruitment drive, in which the entire selection process is called “and tainted”.
Those who were given unemployed claimed that the reason behind their plight was in
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier arrested former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and some other officials who took over posts in the state SSC for irregularities in the recruitment process.
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