They demanded to be reinstated or at least allowed to work until December 31.
Teaching and Non-Teaching Forum members hold protest. Pic/PTI
Over 400 teachers, among the 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff rendered jobless following the Supreme Court order on April 3, on Monday blocked the Hazra Crossing in south Kolkata demanding an audience with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Protesters voiced their anger at being labelled “tainted” despite qualifying in the 2016 WBSSC Recruitment Test. They demanded to be reinstated or at least allowed to work until December 31.
As police tried to stop them from moving towards the CM’s official residence in Kalighat, the protesters scuffled with police and squatted in the middle of the road. One protester refused to budge even after a senior police officer folded his hands and pleaded with her to move aside.
Another protester, holding up a photo of her OMR sheet, accused the SSC of playing a “divisive game” by excluding her name from the list of “not specifically tainted” candidates submitted to the district inspector of schools in Bengal’s Cooch Behar.
The blockade, organised by the United Teaching and Non-Teaching Employees Forum, lasted around 40 minutes before police managed to clear the area. The Supreme Court earlier scrapped the entire 2016 WBSSC recruitment panel, resulting in 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff losing their jobs.
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