By Firstdespatch Desk Sep 28, 2022
Agartala, Sep 28 (FD) Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Wednesday said, he would look into the issue 10,323 retrenched teachers within the constitutional provision and discuss it in an extended forum and do the needful.
Coming down heavily on the previous Left Front government, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday said the BJP-led government is trying to help the 10,323 retrenched teachers within the constitutional provision.
As many as 10,323 teachers were terminated in 2017 after the Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the High Court of Tripura following separate writ petitions.
“The previous government has forced the unemployed youths to walk on the roads for 15 long years and then appointed 10,323 teachers violating the law. We did not do injustice to them. They have lost their jobs following the court’s order but still the present government is trying to help them,” Saha said during a programme in North Tripura’s Kadamtala.
Terming the retrenchment of 10,323 teachers as a burning issue, Saha also took a potshot at the opposition CPI(M) saying those who had spoiled the future of the teachers are now fomenting them to resort to agitation for jobs.
“Since they are ours, the present government is ready to help the 10,323 terminated teachers within the constitutional provision,” he said.
A delegation of 10323 retrenched school teachers of Tripura today met Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha at the state secretariat and apprised him of new developments in their termination including a RTI response from the apex court which said the sacked teachers were not party in the case that got them sacked.
The CM decided to meet the retrenched teachers after a series of agitations including mass demonstrations, a walk to the assembly when the House was in session etc, many of which sustained severe police action.
The 10323 teacher issue raised furore in the last session of current assembly which ended two days back as opposition leader Manik Saha questioned the government's intention behind denying the sacked teachers an audience. The CM assured the House that he would soon meet the ex-teachers and met several teams this morning accordingly.
Speaking to reporters after the meet, 10323 terminated teachers' leader Kamal Banik said, "We met the Chief Minister about our demand to save our livelihood in the light of the RTI response. He promised he would look into the issue and discuss it in an extended forum and do the needful. We are hopeful that he would actively look into the issue". FD JK