Teachers' Protest Shifts to New Site at Shaheed Minar

Protesting teachers of the government-aided schools across the state on Friday decided to shift their new site of protest at Shahid Minar and stopped their five-day-long siege to Acharya Sadan, head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake since 21 April.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Today, they decided to withdraw their agitation for a temporary period to return to their schools after the state school education department sent lists of 15,403 'untainted' teachers to the respective offices of district inspectors (DI) of schools in the state.

They had besieged the WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumder and other officials at Acharya Sadan for two days since Tuesday demanding the commission to release a list of 'tainted' and 'untainted' teachers along with OMR sheets in the official website of the commission.

On Wednesday, they allowed the chairman and his colleagues to leave the Acharya Sadan after 40 hours.

Today, one of the members of the Deserving Teachers' Forum, said: "We have withdrawn the sit-in programme before the commission office and our protest will continue at Shahid Minar till the commission makes the list of both 'tainted' and 'untainted' teachers public."