A group of teachers of Shishu Shiksha Kendra (SSK) and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra (MSK) — all of them women — today staged a protest outside the West Bengal government\u2019s education department office in Salt Lake \u2013 Bikash Bhawan \u2013 to protest their transfer away from home. During the protest, many threatened to commit suicide and five of them actually consumed “poison” — liquid from bottles — and were taken ill. They were rushed to the state-run medical college and hospitals \u2013 NRS and RG Kar. The condition of four of them was stated to be critical.<\/p>\n
The contractual teachers protesting are part of the body, Shikshak Oikya Mancha, that has been organising protests on various issues, including pay hike, for some time now. Earlier, they have staged protest outside Nabanna \u2013 the Bengal government\u2019s administrative headquarters \u2013 and outside education minister Bratya Basu\u2019s house. The teachers have alleged that they are being punished especially because they are organising these protests. Tuesday\u2019s protest outside Bikash Bhawan was primarily on this issue. They were allegedly transferred to north Bengal, though they live in south Bengal.<\/p>\n
They were stopped during the protest when they had entered the main building premises after crossing the main boundary wall. They got into a scuffle with the police and then suddenly took out bottles from their bags and consumed the liquid from the bottles. Probe is on to identify what they had consumed.\u00a0Police personnel posted on duty outside Bikash Bhawan were seen trying to take away the bottles from their hands, but by then five of them had already consumed the “poison”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A group of teachers of Shishu Shiksha Kendra (SSK) and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra (MSK) — all of them women — today staged a protest outside the West Bengal government\u2019s education department office in Salt Lake \u2013 Bikash Bhawan \u2013 to protest their transfer away from home. During the protest, many threatened to commit suicide and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":15909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3794,583,301],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-15908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-teachers","tag-top-story","tag-west-bengal-government"],"yoast_head":"\n