Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) Tension prevailed at the West Bengal education department at Salt Lake on Thursday afternoon after secondary and higher secondary government schoolteachers, who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order last month, gheraoed the main office. The demonstration at the headquarters situated on the northern outskirts … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) Teaching staff who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court’s order in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment case on Friday announced that they will shift the venue of their protest to Y-channel, a popular agitation spot at Esplanade. However, the non-teaching … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday afternoon questioned why teaching and non-teaching staff in the state-run schools, who lost jobs following a Supreme Court order, were now insisting on the publication of the lists segregating the “genuine” and “tainted” candidates. She raised this question … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The joint platform of both ‘genuine’ teaching and non-teaching staff losing school jobs following the recent order of the Supreme Court earlier this month has called off its proposed “march to state secretariat” agitation which was scheduled on April 21. A letter has been forwarded both … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) The parents of the junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August last year announced on Monday that they will be joining the protest march by the “genuine” school job-losers … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) A day after meeting the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, the losers of school jobs following an order of the Supreme Court last week, have intensified their protests on the streets of Kolkata from Saturday. On one hand, the relay hunger strike by a section … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu will meet the school job losers, whose relay hunger strike has entered the second day on Friday. The meeting will be held at Bikas Bhavan at 3 p.m. At the meeting, Minister Basu is expected to explain to the delegation … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) A hunger strike by a section of the job losers, including teaching and non-teaching staff, in state-run schools in West Bengal is underway in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission’s office at Salt Lake in Kolkata. The protesters are demanding that the state government … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have registered two cases against the teaching and non-teaching staff, who lost jobs after the Supreme Court order, for staging protests. The teachers were severely beaten up by the cops on Wednesday after they protested against the job loss in front of the … Read more