DEMAND

Trained unemployed teachers' stir

 

COOCH BEHAR, July 15: The members of the All Bengal Primary Teachers' Trainee Association (ABPTTA) staged demonstrations at the office of the District Primary School Council (DPSC) in Cooch Behar on Tuesday. They also took out a protest rally in the town.

 

Later, the chairman of the DPSC, Md Nuruddin Mian asked the agitators to meet him again after 24 July. By that time a development may turn up into the problems, he assured.

 

President of the ABPTTA, Mr Bhajan Barman said there were 138 Primary Teachers' Training Institutes (PTTI) in this state. Among them 122 were marked as illegal following an order of the High Court because they failed to earn recognition from the National Council for Teachers' Education (NCTE).

 

As a result, more than one-lakh trainees and teachers are suffering since then. The problem is pending for about three years. In the meantime, the trainees of the PTTIs had organised different types of movement under ABPTTA banner. But the authorities concerned took no initiative to end the tangle, a fumed Mr Barman said.

 

Secretary of the APPTTA Mr Ranjan Barman and assistant secretary Mr Sanjay Barman said that they would organise fresh movements throughout the state demanding the government to take initiative to solve the problems related to PTTIs, engagement of all trained candidates in the vacant posts of primary teachers and withdrawal of all cases brought against the trainees of the PPTIs. []