AGITATION

Trainee teachers' agitation

 

COOCH BEHAR, Oct. 3: Members of All Bengal Primary Teachers Trainee Association (ABPTTA) resisted the chairman of the District primary School Council, other officials and employees from entering the DPSC office in Cooch Behar today. The office failed to function normally due to the agitation. Later, after a tripartite meeting held among the Cooch Behar Sadar SDO, DPSC chairman and ABPTTA leaders the agitation was lifted.

 

The agitated ABPTTA members said they organised today's programme demanding appointment of trained candidates in all vacant posts of primary teachers in different primary schools. They also demanded assurance of appointment of all trained teachers and starting of new academic session in the Primary Teachers Training Institutes. []

 

Agitation at airport

 

COOCH BEHAR, Oct. 3: Agitated locals whose lands were acquired for expansion of the runway of the Cooch Behar Airport halted the boundary wall construction work of the airport today. The officials of the Airport Authority of India in Cooch Behar reported the matter to the district magistrate seeking his intervention. The locals were demanding adequate compensation and a thoroughfare for their easy frequenting to their residences in the area concerned. []