Agartala: Dec 09: Hundreds of retrenched teachers, popularly known as 10,323 Sikshak, on Friday formed a more than one kilometre long human chain in Agartala to press for reinstatement of their services.
The participating retrenched teachers under the banner of Joint Action Committee (JAC) said that they wanted the state Chief Minister and his cabinet to take immediate step towards resolving their issue and the government keep the pre-2018 assembly election promise to deal their matter on humanitarian grounds and give them back their jobs.
They said recently the state government had organized a meeting with legal experts on their case but after that there was no further discussion or development in the matter.
The retrenched teachers raised three issues – either they are served individual notices mentioning why they are being terminated, or a termination letter be provided to every individual or allowed them to attend school.
They said that for more than 38 months they are without any salary and already 149 of them have died due to the trauma of losing job and income including several those who had committed suicide.
These 10323 teachers had lost their jobs following a order of the High Court of Tripura which found the recruitment process as faulty and against which the state government appealed in the Supreme Court of India but there the High Court order was upheld.
They alleged that due to the misinterpretation of the apex court order by the then director of education and who issued a common notification for termination of all 10323 teachers on 23 December 2017 they lost their job though all of them were not even parties in that case.
The human chain started from the status of Mahatma Gandhi in Circuit House area and continued upto the North Gate area.
