SSC protests continue in Kol, at Jantar Mantar

Kolkata: Protesting teachers and staffers who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court order held a daylong sit-in protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Wednesday.
Around 70 protesters reached Delhi on Wednesday. Sixty travelled by a hired bus while the remaining took the train. They started their protest under the banner of ‘Qualified Teachers' Unity Forum' at 1 pm on Wednesday, holding posters with their demands written in Hindi and English. The sit-in protest continued until 5 pm in the evening.
Through the protest, they requested PM Narendra Modi, President Droupadi Murmu and MPs of different political parties to support them in getting their jobs back. They also submitted a deputation at the PMO and the offices of the President and the Union education minister.
Chinmoy Mondal, the coordinator, said: "There is no option left but to hold a street protest. We are eligible teachers and got our jobs through the proper channel. Those who get jobs based on merit and those who obtain jobs through corruption can never be equal. We are eligible teachers, so we want our jobs back."
Many are still hopeful that they will get their jobs back through a review submission. However, they do not believe that legal action alone can lead to achieving their target.
Another protesting teacher at Jantar Mantar said: "We are qualified, yet we are jobless. People should know the real facts instead of fabricated stories. Hence, we are protesting here to get our jobs back." In Kolkata, the protests continued at Y-channel. On the other hand, a section of job-losers called for a march to the CBI office in Salt Lake, demanding mirror images of OMR sheets.
The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education has already filed a petition, which is likely to be heard on Thursday. Before that, the sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar might play a significant role. In the petition, the board m
entioned that the judgment impacted state-aided schools, leading to an imbalance in the teacher-student ratio, leaving several schools with only one teacher for teaching hundreds of students.