This year, 1,20,881 out of 9.69 lakh candidates who appeared in the exam failed, showing a sharp increase in the number of unsuccessful students.
Headmasters of various government-run and government-aided schools, under the banner of the Advanced Society for Headmasters and Headmistresses (ASFHM), have expressed deep concern over the exclusion of qualified non-teaching staff in the education sector.
A hunger strike by a section of the job losers, including teaching and non-teaching staff, in state-run schools in West Bengal is underway in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission's office at Salt Lake in Kolkata.
The untainted, deserving teachers who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court verdict held a protest rally today.
Hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff from state-aided secondary and higher secondary schools, who recently lost their jobs following a Supreme Court verdict that found irregularities in the appointment process, staged protests across North Bengal on Wednesday demanding justice and reinstatement.
As the education sector is making progress in its digital way, educational institutions are becoming vulnerable to be targeted for cyber bullying ~ from ransomware attacks to data breaches.
With the enrolments increasing, each school has more than 300 to 400 students leading to an increase of around 30 per cent students in each class.
The LG ensured the teachers that he will do everything possible to provide them with an enabling work atmosphere and exhorted them to put in their best by remaining consistently updated and proactive so that their students are shaped mentally as well as academically at par with the best amongst their peers.
The 2nd phase of the school transformation programme will get underway on 10 June from Jajpur district, he informed.
The team inspected the school buildings as well as interacted with students, teachers, and other staff of the school. During inspection it was found that the condition of the schools was pathetic, unsafe and deeply disturbing.
