Trainee teachers' on war path

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 5: Members of All Bengal Primary Teachers' Trainee Association (ABPTTA) will organise demonstrations throughout the state from tomorrow. They are to demonstrate demanding amicable solution of the stalemate that is going on since 2006 related to the fate of trained candidates and trainees.

 

President of ABPTTA Mr Bhajan Barman said 122 Primary Teachers' Training Institutes (PTTI) of this state were declared illegal by an order of the High Court on 6 March 2006. Following that order the fate of trained candidates upto 2005 turned uncertain. The final examination of the 2005-2006 academic session was also held up for indefinite period. As a result the future of about 75,000 trainees became uncertain, he alleged.

 

Since passing of the order the ABPTTA organised several movements including sit-ins and hunger strikes in different districts but nothing happened till now to end their plight. The state government too took no initiative to untie the knots at the court. At last, they decided to launch a massive movement from tomorrow, Mr Barman said.

 

Mr Barman said as a part of their movement they would organise a sit-in in front of the office of the district primary school council (DPSC) at Cooch Behar tomorrow and stall functioning of the office till their demands were met with a positive solution. []