CPI (M) urges govt to take up 10,323 teachers' termination case on humanitarian ground

Opposition CPI (M) on Monday appealed to the state government to consider the re-appoint of retrenched 10, 323 teachers on humanitarian grounds.

The state committee of CPI(M) through a press statement said that ‘recently, the Division Bench of the Kolkata High Court has ruled to retain the jobs of 32,000 teachers dismissed in West Bengal on charges of recruitment corruption, considering them from a humanitarian point of view.’

 The CPI(M) Tripura State secretariat is urging the state government to apply to the court to reinstate 10,323 teachers dismissed in Tripura, said CPI(M) and added  that 10,323 teachers were appointed in Tripura on the basis of the recruitment policy adopted in 1980.

There were no allegations of any corruption or irregularities, etc., which is completely different from the recruitment corruption in West Bengal. The court in Tripura ruled to dismiss 10,323 teachers only by raising questions about the recruitment policy. Although thousands of unemployed youth were employed on the basis of the recruitment policy adopted in 1980.

The CPI (M) statement added that the current ruling party and the state government had promised to reinstate 10,323 teachers, but it has not been fulfilled till date. More than two hundred teachers have already lost their lives prematurely. Overall, the dismissed teachers are in dire straits. In this situation, the state secretariat is urging the state government to petition the court for their reinstatement from a humanitarian point of view, read the statement.

Earlier, on Saturday last Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Tripura Assembly, Jitendra Chaudhury, also urged the state government to take up the matter of 10,323 teachers' termination at an appropriate level for reconsideration.

He cited the recent verdict of the Kolkata High Court, which overturned a single bench's order on the dismissal of 32,000 teachers in West Bengal.

Following writ petitions challenging the Recruitment Rules, the High Court of Tripura had terminated the services of 10,323 teachers in 2014, and later the verdict was upheld by a division bench of the Supreme Court in 2017.