Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, June 15 (IANS) Four “untainted” or “genuine” teachers in state-run schools in West Bengal, who have lost jobs following a Supreme Court order in April this year and who had been on hunger strike near the office of West Bengal school service commission since the night of June 12, … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The “untainted” or “genuine” teachers of state-run schools in West Bengal, protesting the loss of their jobs following a Supreme Court order last month, announced that they would be organising a “March to State Secretariat” on Friday. The protesting teachers would start assembling at Sealdah from … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) Protesting teachers termed as a “death sentence” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Tuesday announcement that the “untainted” teachers, who had lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order in connection with the cash-for-job case, will have to appear afresh in a written examination for recruitment, … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Government school teachers in West Bengal who have been protesting against their job loss following an order of the Supreme Court last month in the cash-for-job case, will now take their demonstrations beyond Kolkata to the national Capital. This was announced by the protesting teachers who … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Teachers who lost their jobs following a recent Supreme Court order in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment case have given a deadline to state Education Minister Bratya Basu to meet them and address their concerns. The aggrieved teachers, who identify as “untainted” or … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, barred the Bidhannagar Police from taking any coercive action, including arrest, against “untainted” or “genuine” teachers who have been named in FIRs for protesting in front of the state education department headquarters. The teachers have been … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Police have summoned teachers protesting outside the West Bengal Education Department headquarters for allegedly destroying public property and obstructing state government personnel from performing their duties. As many as 17 protesting teachers, including some who received head and body injuries in “police action”, have been asked … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Two senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders on Saturday offered contrasting responses to the police action taken against protesting teachers who had staged a “gherao” at the state education department headquarters in Kolkata on Thursday night. The teachers — described by many as “untainted” or “genuine” — … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) A senior official of West Bengal Police on Friday sought to justify the baton charge in front of Bikash Bhavan, the state Education Department headquarters, on the “untainted” or “genuine” secondary and higher secondary teachers in state-run schools who have lost their jobs following a Supreme … Read more