Protest leader finds name missing from govt list

The WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumder, who was under siege at Acharya Sadan, was let off along with other officers by the protesting sacked teachers as he had to be personally present in court in relation to the case

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

After a 40-hour siege at Acharya Sadan, West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) headquarters at Salt Lake, a section of protesting sacked teachers on Wednesday morning allowed Siddhartha Majumder, chairman of the WBSSC, and its other employees to leave.

The aggrieved teachers of the government-aided schools across the state have been organising protests in front of the Acharya Sadan building demanding the commission to release the list of tainted and untainted teachers along with OMR sheets of 22,000 candidates who had appeared in the recruitment tests conducted by the WBSSC in 2016 for the posts of assistant teachers and non-teaching staff.

Mr Majumdar, whom the protesters had gheraoed since Monday, was scheduled to appear before the Calcutta High Court today in connection with a hearing related to the presentation of OMR sheets of the 2016 recruitment test.

The agitators, who launched the demonstration on 21 April, however, said their sit-in will continue till their demands are met by the school service commission.

Mr Majumdar told media he has returned home and will take rest for some time before attending the court proceedings as per schedule.