Academics protesting exterior the West Bengal SSC headquarters have briefly suspended their demonstration after the discharge of an eligible candidates record, however will proceed their protest at Shaheed Minar whereas specializing in a Supreme Court docket petition.
Academics who’ve been protesting exterior the headquarters of the West Bengal College Service Fee (SSC) for the previous 5 days have determined to briefly droop their demonstration and return to their faculties after the SSC printed the record of eligible candidates on Friday.
The choice was taken after the West Bengal College Service Fee (SSC) launched a listing of roughly 16,000 eligible lecturers. A frontrunner from the Eligible Academics’ Discussion board, Dhrithish Mandal, confirmed that the protest exterior the SSC headquarters could be known as off. Nevertheless, he famous that their protest on the Shaheed Minar in central Kolkata would proceed.
“We’re withdrawing our protest from the SSC headquarters beginning in the present day. Our protest will now proceed at Shaheed Minar,” Mandal stated. He additional defined that the discussion board is now specializing in a evaluate petition that shall be filed within the Supreme Court docket concerning an order from April 3 that invalidated the roles of practically 26,000 lecturers recruited after the 2016 SSC examination.
Authorized session to concentrate on court docket petition
Mandal emphasised that the protest was being paused briefly to permit the discussion board’s authorized specialists to organize the petition for the Supreme Court docket. “Sitting exterior all day makes it troublesome for us to seek the advice of authorized specialists and put together the petition,” Mandal added. “Nevertheless, our protest at Shaheed Minar will proceed till eligible lecturers are reinstated.”
Shubhankar Ghosh, one other instructor collaborating within the protest, acknowledged that their calls for concerning the inclusion of names of further lecturers within the record would proceed. The lecturers had been demanding that 10 names lacking from the record be included. SSC Chairman Siddhartha Majumdar acknowledged the omission, attributing it to a technical error, and promised to launch an up to date record.
Incomplete record printed by SSC
Majumdar commented on the scenario, saying, “The record has been launched, however it’s incomplete. Nevertheless, for now, it’s cheap for these included within the record to return to their faculties.” He additionally famous that the Supreme Court docket is monitoring the scenario.
One of many protesting lecturers talked about, “We are going to resume our protest in the course of the summer season holidays, specializing in our remaining calls for, which embody reinstating lecturers as much as the age of 60 and releasing the total record of eligible candidates.”
Historical past of protest
The protests started on April 21, when lecturers demanded the restoration of jobs as much as the retirement age and fast elimination of “tainted” candidates from the 2016 SSC recruitment. The protests intensified earlier this week when the lecturers held SSC Chairman Siddhartha Majumdar hostage in his workplace for over 40 hours, demanding the publication of the OMR sheets and a listing of unblemished candidates.
Court docket ruling and job losses
The protests adopted the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on April 3, which cancelled your entire 2016 recruitment panel resulting from widespread irregularities. In consequence, round 25,753 educating and non-teaching employees in state-aided faculties misplaced their jobs. Whereas the Supreme Court docket allowed the continuation of the providers of untainted lecturers till December 31, the protesting lecturers are calling for a evaluate to increase their employment till retirement.
(PTI inputs)