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Over 400 jobless Bengal school employees block Kolkata road
Orissa POST
|April 29, 2025
Protesters demanded to be reinstated or at least allowed to work until December 31, following the court's directive that allowed some teachers to continue temporarily
Over 400 people, among the 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff rendered jobless following the Supreme Court order April 3, Monday blocked the Hazra Crossing in south Kolkata demanding an audience with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Traffic came to a standstill for nearly an hour along the busy Asutosh Mukherjee Road-Hazra Road crossing as 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, following the court's directive that allowed some teachers to continue temporarily.
As police tried to stop them from moving towards the CM’s official residence in Kalighat area, around 1 km away, the protesters scuffled with police and squatted in the middle of the road.
This story is from the April 29, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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