West Bengal Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) candidates, who claim to have passed the previous examinations but are yet to get the job of primary school teachers, have blocked a major road in south Kolkata, demanding immediate recruitment. done. TET is the minimum qualification required for appointment as teachers in primary classes (classes 1-5) and upper primary (classes 6-8) of government schools.
A Kolkata Police official said 100 protesters were taken into custody as they blocked the Ashutosh Mukherjee Road-Hajra road crossing at around 1:30 pm and fled the spot despite being asked to do so by law enforcers. refused to move. The protesters alleged that the policemen beat them up and pushed them to the ground. The officer, however, denied the allegation, saying that the police exercised restraint despite being instigated by the candidates.
The police had to clear the busy road to maintain the flow of traffic, the official said. Kaushik Saha, a protester, said, “We had qualified in the exam and interview in 2014, but have not received the appointment letter. It is a question of our life and death.” Another protester Devarshi Banik alleged that not 50-100 but over a thousand TET qualified candidates were ignored for recruitment, while those who scored lesser marks got jobs.
“We will not rest until we get justice,” he said. West Bengal CM amid CBI probe into school teacher recruitment scam Mamata Banerjee On Monday, the state assembly had said, “We have tried to create jobs unlike those who go to court to sack people. We (in the school education department) have given jobs to about one lakh people. Of those, there could be 50-100 cases where mistakes have been made.
Expressing solidarity with the agitators, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleged that they were denied their legitimate jobs by the government, who sought jobs in the posts of teachers from the families of Trinamool Congress loyalists. had violated all the rules for the recruitment of candidates from TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh had pulled up the opposition for playing politics over the issue and inciting protests, while asserting that if there is any irregularity in the appointment, it will be addressed by the government.
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