Agartala, Nov 11, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Agartala Nov 11: Qualified unemployed youths continue to face high-handedness of police in course of their democratic protests demanding recruitment.
Hundreds of aspiring teachers once again staged protest in front of the state education minister Ratan Lal Nath’s residence demanding fulfilment of promises made by the ministers on several occasions.
The agitating youths including those who have successfully cracked the selection test for graduate teachers and would be directly posted for teaching the students of Class 9 and 10, gathered in front of Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath’s residence seeking all together recruitment.
However, police and TSR jawans were pressed into action to clear the spot of agitation.
The youths were frustrated when they had been told by the authorities that the department was planning to conduct fresh exams instead of recruiting the existing qualified candidates based on the requirement requirements in the department. This has further aggravated the aspiring teachers who thought that their efforts to crack the exam earlier we in vain.
The job aspirants said, “All of us have cracked the exams securing marks above the qualifying ceiling. But we are not getting jobs due to reasons unknown to us. We have been running pillar to post for over a month now. Sometimes trying to meet the Finance Minister, sometimes the education minister and we have even talked to Cabinet spokesperson and ICA minister Sushanta Chowdhury. The ministers have assured to help us but we haven’t seen any concrete steps for initiating the recruitment process so far”.
The job aspirants further lambasted the state education minister over his tall statements of “14,000 jobs but no proper candidate for recruitment”.
“Many of us have taken loans, sold plots, spend two years in completing B.Ed listening to the tall statements of the EM, but all these fake words are clear in front of us now”, added one of the agitating youth.
Meanwhile the agitators further said, “Many schools are reeling under a severe crisis of teachers, which is the biggest stumbling block towards the state government’s slogan of ‘quality education’ for all”.
“We have come here to know if the government is considering giving us a remedy or if there is no scope of getting jobs. The education minister should give a clear answer. Until then our protests will continue here,” said protesters.
The youths strongly condemned the role of police and slammed the state government and the cabinet ministers for taking complete U-turn from their promises.
Later, a five member delegation of the agitating youths met the Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath with the demand of all together recruitment.