Madhyamik exams: Teachers flag increasing number of unsuccessful candidates
This year, 1,20,881 out of 9.69 lakh candidates who appeared in the exam failed, showing a sharp increase in the number of unsuccessful students.
This year, 1,20,881 out of 9.69 lakh candidates who appeared in the exam failed, showing a sharp increase in the number of unsuccessful students.
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.
A major fire broke out at the Directorate of Education headquarters here on Sunday morning, reducing several important files related to the teachers' recruitment scam and other matters to ashes.
Protesting teachers of the government-aided schools across the state on Friday decided to shift their new site of protest at Sahid Minar and stopped their five day-long siege to Acharya Sadan, head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake since 21 April.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
The stalemate over the issue of publishing of the segregated list continued even after the meeting between the WBSSC chairman and six-member representatives of the agitating teachers at the commission’s office.
The agitating teachers of government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools across the state, who have been rendered jobless after the Supreme Court verdict on 3 April, want permanent jobs and not any temporary relief.
The Kolkata police commissioner Manoj Verma has ordered an inquiry to probe the incident of vandalism at the district inspector (DI) of schools office premises at Kasba in the southern part of the city on Wednesday.
The BJP MP and former judge of the Calcutta High Court Abhijit Gangopadhyay also visited the protesters at the WBSSC office venue earlier in the day.
The state chief secretary, Manoj Pant, today urged the dismissed teachers—rendered jobless by the Supreme Court verdict—to exercise restraint and refrain from taking the law into their own hands.
