Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has advised the retrenched 10,323 teachers to prepare for interviews instead of wasting time in the name of agitation.
“The government has pushed recruitment drive to fill up around 9000 posts. If the 10,323 former teachers continue to stage protests only, many other people are there to grab the opportunities,” Deb said in a press conference on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister came out with this important suggestion at the time when the retrenched teachers already launched an agitation at Paradise Chowmuhani in support of their demand for ‘permanent solution’.
In context of the age relaxation allowed in the job notifications, the Chief Minister advised the agitators to prepare well for the upcoming interviews.
Meanwhile, the indefinite sit-in demonstration by 10323 retrenched teachers is continuing for the second successive days in Agartala. The demonstration started on December 7 (Monday).
Several groups of 10323 terminated teachers are holding demo under the common banner of Joint Movement Committee.
They have raised two-point demands. Leaders of the terminated teachers group demanded that all of the retrenched teachers would be re-absorbed in Government jobs at one go. They also demanded job for family members of dead teachers in die-in-harness.
Retrenched teachers from almost all over the State are spending days and nights at the demonstration arena.
On December 7, Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath categorically mentioned that no one would get a job without clearing required exams.
These teachers were inducted into the state government schools in different phases from 2010 when the CPI-M-led Left Front government was in power.
The Tripura High Court in 2011 and 2014 ordered for termination of services of all the 10,323 teachers, saying the selection criteria had “discrepancies”.
Thereafter, acting on special leave petitions by the then Left Front government and a section of teachers, the Supreme Court upheld the High Court verdict on March 29, 2017. However, following an appeal, the apex court extended their services up to June last year.
After coming to power in the state in March 2018, the BJP-led government filed another appeal in the Supreme Court in June 2019, with the court granting a one-time final extension in services till March 2020.
