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Bengal school teachers row: No breakthrough in talks, sacked teachers plan to take protest to Delhi

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Bengal school teachers row: No breakthrough in talks, sacked teachers plan to take protest to Delhi

A two-hour-long meeting between representatives of protesting teachers, demanding reinstatement of their jobs, and Education Department officials on Monday failed to break the ongoing deadlock. Instead, the protesting teachers said they would take their protest to Delhi.With Education Minister Bratya Basu skipping the meeting, the six-member delegation of sacked teachers met Principal Secretary Vinod Kumar and Secretary Subhra Chakraborty at Bikash Bhavan at Salt Lake, outside which the teachers sacked by the Supreme Court have been protesting for the past three weeks. On Sunday, Education Minister Basu urged the protesting teachers to repose faith in the government and assured them that all legal steps were being explored to find a solution to the impasse. He had reiterated that “untainte...

Bengal school jobs cases: SC scraps recruitment For Group C, D school staff, Mamata promises stipend & review plea

In a relief to Group C and D non-teaching staff, whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court and did not get reprieve like the teachers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced financial assistance for them. She also said her government would file a review petition for Group C and D non-teaching staff, along with one for the affected teachers. She said that in case the Supreme Court rejected the review plea, her government would explore alternative measures to support them. Story continues below this ad Around 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff of state-aided schools lost their jobs after the Supreme Court, on April 3, scrapped the entire 2016 recruitment panel due to large-scale irregularities. Though the apex court later allowed th...

In Salboni for thermal plant, Bengal CM hits out at critics: ‘We don’t talk, we work’, lays foundation stone for 1600 MW power project

Amid the ongoing teachers’ protest over the SSC job cancellation and the recent communal violence in Murshidabad, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at her detractors, saying ‘we don’t just talk, we work”.After laying the foundation stone of JSW’s 1,600 MW thermal power plant at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district, the chief minister said: “You can criticize me. But you can’t ignore me. Many people say a lot of things. We don’t just talk, we work.” Asserting it was a historic power project for Bengal that will benefit “all the 23 districts of the state”, the CM said it would give jobs to 15,000 people. Story continues below this ad “Earlier, people used to say we don’t need a government of load shedding. Now, electricity is supplied 24 hours a day. Two more...