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The Hindu
14-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Security cordon around Bengal state secretariat as 'eligible teachers' plan protest march
Tight security arrangements have been made around West Bengal state secretariat 'Nabanna' in Howrah on Monday (July 14, 2025) as 'eligible teachers', whose jobs were annulled following a Supreme Court order, planned a protest march demanding their reinstatement, a senior police officer said. Although the route march of the 'Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhikar Mancha' (Deserving Teachers' Rights Forum) has not been finalised yet, Howrah City Police deployed senior officers at crucial junctions to maintain law and order, with a specific focus on major entry points to Nabanna. 'We are focused on preventing any major disruption to daily life and keeping the situation under control. To stop any such attempt, iron barricades have been placed at four strategic locations in Howrah to halt the protesters from advancing toward the state secretariat,' the officer said. 'Towering metal barriers have been erected at Bangabashi Crossing on GT Road, Ramkrishnapur Ghat Gate on Foreshore Road, Kazipara Crossing, and Satragachi Crossing,' he said. 'There are prohibitory orders around Nabanna and assembly of people is not permitted in the area. Additional security measures have been taken in the wake of the planned protest march,' he said. Around 2,000 police personnel, drawn from multiple commissionerates, have been deployed across Howrah. Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel have also been stationed at strategic locations, while water cannons are on standby to disperse any attempt to break through police barricades. The forum demanded that the state publish lists of 'untainted certified teachers' besides OMR sheets, and restore the jobs of eligible teachers. Chinmoy Mondal, spokesperson of the forum, said that they were determined to hold the protest march despite the threat of police action. 'This is our democratic right. We want the state government to fulfil our demands,' he said. The teachers, who are scheduled to gather at Howrah station, have been staging protests for the past 68 days near Central Park in Salt Lake after earlier demonstrations at Bikash Bhavan, the headquarters of the state education department. The Supreme Court on April 3 upheld a 2024 Calcutta High Court judgment annulling the recruitment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staffers appointed through a recruitment drive by SSC in 2016, terming the entire selection process 'vitiated and tainted'. Those who were rendered jobless claimed that the reason behind their plight was the inability of the state School Service Commission (SSC) to differentiate between candidates who secured employment through fraudulent means and those who did not. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier arrested former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and some other officials, who held positions in the state SSC when the irregularities in the recruitment process took place.
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Business Standard
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Security cordon around Bengal secretariat as eligible teachers plan protest
Tight security arrangements have been made around West Bengal state secretariat 'Nabanna' in Howrah on Monday as "eligible teachers", whose jobs were annulled following a Supreme Court order, planned a protest march demanding their reinstatement, a senior police officer said. Although the route march of the 'Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhikar Mancha' (Deserving Teachers' Rights Forum) has not been finalised yet, Howrah City Police deployed senior officers at crucial junctions to maintain law and order, with a specific focus on major entry points to Nabanna. "We are focused on preventing any major disruption to daily life and keeping the situation under control. To stop any such attempt, iron barricades have been placed at four strategic locations in Howrah to halt the protesters from advancing toward the state secretariat," the officer said. Towering metal barriers have been erected at Bangabashi Crossing on GT Road, Ramkrishnapur Ghat Gate on Foreshore Road, Kazipara Crossing, and Satragachi Crossing, he said. "There are prohibitory orders around Nabanna and assembly of people is not permitted in the area. Additional security measures have been taken in the wake of the planned protest march," he said. Around 2,000 police personnel, drawn from multiple commissionerates, have been deployed across Howrah. Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel have also been stationed at strategic locations, while water cannons are on standby to disperse any attempt to break through police barricades. The forum demanded that the state publish lists of "untainted certified teachers" besides OMR sheets, and restore the jobs of eligible teachers. Chinmoy Mondal, spokesperson of the forum, said that they were determined to hold the protest march despite the threat of police action. "This is our democratic right. We want the state government to fulfil our demands," he said. The teachers, who are scheduled to gather at Howrah station, have been staging protests for the past 68 days near Central Park in Salt Lake after earlier demonstrations at Bikash Bhavan, the headquarters of the state education department. The Supreme Court on April 3 upheld a 2024 Calcutta High Court judgment annulling the recruitment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staffers appointed through a recruitment drive by SSC in 2016, terming the entire selection process 'vitiated and tainted'. Those who were rendered jobless claimed that the reason behind their plight was the inability of the state School Service Commission (SSC) to differentiate between candidates who secured employment through fraudulent means and those who did not. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier arrested former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and some other officials, who held positions in the state SSC when the irregularities in the recruitment process took place.
Time of India
28-06-2025
- Time of India
Rape isn't the first shock: Assaults, ragging and neta interference plagued Kolkata's law college for years; all you need to know
KOLKATA: The rape of a student of a college in the heart of south Kolkata near a main thoroughfare is the culmination of violence, political interference and illegal activities at the institute in the past few years. The 50-year-old college on Swinhoe Street, off Gariahat, relocated to a new G+6 storey building in 2019. Sources said there were multiple incidents on both campuses. In 2017, the principal's room was vandalised in a fracas between two TMCP groups over funds for the freshers' welcome programme. This prompted the then education minister Partha Chatterjee to scrap the TMCP unit at the college. A cop complaint was registered at Gariahat PS. Manojit Mishra, the prime accused in the rape case, was then the TMCP unit president and was arrested along with two other students. They were later released. You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata Within months of the college shifting to the new building at Kasba in 2019, there was a scuffle between students that spilled onto the main road. Again in 2022, a scuffle between two groups led to rampant vandalism in which an elderly person from the area was severely thrashed. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo In 2024, a fourth-year student was badly beaten up by Mishra and his aides, and a plaint was registered against them. During that time, another fourth-year female student registered a harassment and ragging plaint against Mishra and indicated that he was so influential that no one dared to take action against him. Current students said though the union was officially dissolved in 2017, some students continued to wield influence and claimed to be TMCP members. Teacher-in-charge Nayna Chatterjee said ex-students and outsiders had free access to the college. "The official hours are from 9 am to 4 pm and we try to shut the gates thereafter. But some students refuse to leave the campus. I have reported this to higher officials several times," she said. Ex-students alleged large-scale political interference, with local netas often attending programmes on campus under the party banner. An ex-student said, "We used to have regular classes till noon. Thereafter, most students would go for practice under seniors or attend internship programmes. The college authority has failed to stop these hooligans as these people have been active for many years." (The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
The Hindu
18-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
India as the world's fourth largest economy: What the numbers tell us
According to the latest projections by the IMF, India is now the world's fourth-largest economy. Government officials, including the CEO of NITI Aayog B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, have expressed confidence that India could soon overtake Germany to claim the third spot. Adding to the optimism, the World Bank recently reported that extreme poverty in the country fell to 5.3% in 2022–2023. A recent report by SBI noted that the poverty rate in India could now be in the range of 4%. But what do these numbers mean for the broader population? Guest: Partha Chatterjee, Dean of Academics at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, and Professor, Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar University. Host: Nivedita V Edited by Jude Francis Weston For more episodes of In Focus:
Time of India
07-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Explosive Developments in WBSSC Scandal: CBI Unveils Audio-Visual Evidence, ET LegalWorld
In a significant development in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam, the CBI has accessed fresh audio-visual evidence that could unravel deeper layers of the alleged conspiracy. While the CBI has remained tight-lipped about the precise contents of these recordings, sources familiar with the investigation said the material includes conversations that shed light on how the scam was orchestrated and personally overseen by former state Education Minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee. The audio-visual content, according to sources, details how various stages of the recruitment fraud were planned and executed, implicating both senior officials of the WBSSC and representatives of NYSA, the private firm contracted to manage and preserve Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets for recruitment examinations. Advt Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals Subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights & analysis. Download ETLegalWorld App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App In light of this new evidence, the CBI has approached a special court in Kolkata seeking permission to collect voice samples of five individuals named in the chargesheet. These samples will be used to verify whether the voices heard in the recordings match those of the suspects. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for June 12, when the court will decide whether to allow the agency to the five individuals, three were formerly associated with the WBSSC, while the remaining two worked with NYSA. Investigators believe that the new material not only strengthens the case against Partha Chatterjee -- already identified by both the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as the principal architect of the scam -- but also helps establish the operational nexus between key players in the commission and the private April 30, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose granted prosecution sanction against both Partha Chatterjee and Manik Bhattacharya, a Trinamool MLA and former president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), in connection with the ED's Bhattacharya is currently out on bail, Chatterjee remains behind bars as investigations continue to uncover the breadth of the alleged scam that rocked the state's education recruitment system.
