High-profile Udhampur LS seat records around 70 pc polling
The Udhampur constituency sprawls from the plains of Kathua touching Punjab to the mountainous regions of Kishtwar and Doda.
Statesman News Service
Kolkata, 12 July
Over seven lakh students of Class XI of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education will have to continue to attend classes without eight of their language text books as the 9 July interim order of Calcutta High Court directing the state government to stop sale, publication and tender process of the text books will continue.
Mr Justice Sanjib Banerjee, who had earlier passed the interim order, today held that the stay would continue, when state advocate general, Bimal Chatterjee sought time from the court during the day.
Punascha Publications had moved court challenging the WBCHSE ‘s decision to award the tender of publishing these books to a party offering lower rate of royalty than its own offer. The council had floated a tender for the purchase of these books in which Punascha Publications, Orient Black Swan and others participated.
A meeting was held at the chamber of the advocate general during the day and it was attended by all the parties concerned with the matter. An earlier meeting attended by advocate general and other parties hadn’t yielded any result. The new session has begun from 24 June and the students are forced to attend the language classes without the text books. The council has scrapped the old syllabus and introduce a new one according to which the texts have been prepared.
For the past couple of weeks students and their guardians had been moving from one book shop to another anxiously inquiring about when the new text books would be available.
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