A group of ‘qualified and jobless’ teachers have expressed their intent to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his upcoming visit to Alipurduar on 29 May, in a desperate plea for justice following a Supreme Court verdict that cost them their jobs.
The Indian stock market outlook for next week will be guided by several domestic and international cues such as retail inflation, quarterly results, US jobless claims data and others.
Jobless ‘tainted’ teachers during their protest today were involved in a scuffle with police during their march to chief minister’s residence at Harish Chatterjee Street on Monday.
The youth need to now take matters into their own hands and hold the government accountable for their plight, he added.
A long-term strategy could be to link our education system to requirements of trade and industry, ensuring that a student coming out of the education system has requisite skills for the jobs on offer and there is no oversupply in any discipline. The New Education Policy (NEP), does not have this clear objective, but NEP does have the commendable intention of promoting vocational education. However, given the paucity of institutions imparting vocational education, a short-term strategy is also required
The latest data showed the total number of people in work remained unchanged from a month earlier at a seasonally adjusted 66.24 million.
Hitting out the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the CM said it was evident that the Akalis were trying to divert the farmers’ attention from the Centre to the state, with an eye on the Assembly polls, unmindful of the harm this would cause to the state and to the farmers themselves, he added.
In the week ending on June 19, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits decreased by 7,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level of 418,000.
Many party workers protested against the government over the steep rise in prices and wore paper hats with images of gas cylinder with its price of Rs885 written on them.
The Congress on Friday said the BJP-led central government had planned a 'Modifest' on completing three years in office though…
