Jobless teachers begin relay hunger strike near SSC office

Junior doctors, civil society members, and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay joined the protesters

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Jobless teachers and non-teaching staff of government-aided schools across the state intensified their protests on Thursday, a day after they had a skirmish with the police in front of the District Inspector (DI) schools office at Kasba on Wednesday.

Today, a group of aggrieved school teachers, group C and D employees sat on relay hunger strike at the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) office at Salt Lake while others marched to Esplanade Dorina Crossing from Sealdah demanding the commission, sole body that organises recruitment tests for teachers and other staff in secondary and higher secondary schools in the state produce mirror images of the OMR sheets of the candidates, who had appeared in the examination in 2016.

The protestors also came down heavily on police atrocities against them while they marched to the Acharya Bhawan, WBSSC headquarters, on Wednesday.