Stalemate continues

The ongoing sit-in protests organised by the agitating jobless teachers of government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools in front of the Acharya Sadan, headquarter of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake, since Monday afternoon aggravated further on Tuesday evening after they came to know that the WBSSC won't release the list of untainted and tainted teachers in the public domain like the official website of the commission.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

The protesters have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Sadan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.

The protesting sacked teachers would move Calcutta High Court demanding exclusion of the alleged undeserved teachers. A member of the delegation told news persons after a discussion held with the SSC chairman at Acharya Sadan at Salt Lake today.

The protesters didn't allow the WBSSC staff, including its chairman Siddhartha Majumder and policemen to get out of the Acharya Sadan till this evening. The aggrieved protesters guarded the two gates of the commission office since Monday so that no one can get in or go out of the complex. The entire Acharya Sadan building has virtually been in siege by the jobless teachers.

"Education minister Bratya Basu has announced that the WBSSC won't make the list public through its official website. We demand the commission to release the list of tainted and untainted teachers in public domain otherwise the chairman and his other colleagues won't be allowed to get out of this office," said Chinmoy Mondal, an aggrieved teacher.