10323 ad hoc teachers’ association placed five point demands during 48 hours sit in demo at Agartala today. SC will hear their next pleas on March 16
Enewstime Desk
Agartala, March 14, 2020: A group of teachers in Tripura belonging to ad hoc 10323 teachers who are facing termination on March 31 started a 48-hour long sit-in demonstration in Agartala from today. Large number of teachers belonging to 10323 assembled and started the demonstration.
Sit-in Demonstration
The 10,323 Sikshak Karmachari Sanghatan president Bimal Saha today threatened the government of a civil disobedience movement unless their demands were fulfilled.
The association of the 10,323 teachers placed a five point charter of demand during a 48 hours sit in demonstration at Agartala today. Speaking on the occasion, Bimal Saha said, “We have noticed that the government is not attentive towards our demands. We want the government to resolve our issues at the earliest. If our demands are not meet, we shall start civil disobedience movement”.
Charting the demands of the organization he said, the organization wants permanent solution of the uncertainty over our job, due in harness jobs for the people who have died in trauma of losing jobs, repeal of the termination letters served to the 10,323 teachers and implementation of validation act.
Bimal Saha also included that the organization would announce it’s further course of protests after the scheduled hearing of the Supreme Court case on March 16 next.
Flashback to 10323 teachers’ uncertainty
These group of 10323 teachers were recruited during previous Left Front regime in under graduate, graduate and post-graduate categories in phases. However, a case was filed challenging validity of the recruitment procedures. After hearing the case, the High Court of Tripura termed the recruitment as ‘unconstitutional’ in 2014.
The verdict was challenged in the Supreme Court and the Apex Court upheld the HC verdict and terminated 10323 teachers with effect from December 31, 2017. However, terminated 10323 teachers received temporary relief as they were absorbed as ad hoc teachers for six months which was further extended by the Apex Court up to March 31, 2020. Meanwhile, recently a group of 10323 filed fresh pleas in the Apex Court which will be heard on March 16.
As the March 31 deadline is approaching, disenchantment and despondency among ad hoc 10323 teachers in Tripura is palpable. As the leaders of the ad hoc teachers’ group was delivering speeches, desperation was visible. Repeatedly they were asking as to why they were made victims to ‘unconstitutional’ recruitment by the previous LF government.
