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.
Jobless ‘tainted’ teachers during their protest today were involved in a scuffle with police during their march to chief minister’s residence at Harish Chatterjee Street on Monday.
A major fire broke out at the Directorate of Education headquarters here on Sunday morning, reducing several important files related to the teachers' recruitment scam and other matters to ashes.
Protesting teachers of the government-aided schools across the state on Friday decided to shift their new site of protest at Sahid Minar and stopped their five day-long siege to Acharya Sadan, head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake since 21 April.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
Within days of chief minister's apprehension, a teacher from 2016 panel committed suicide in Bankura today.
The Serampore Girls High School and Rishra Vidyapith Higher Secondary School are now facing acute shortage of teachers.
A group of violent ‘outsiders’ severely beat up and abused male and female teachers inside the Balarampur Manmathanath Vidyamandir in the Narendrapur police station area in South 24-Parganas district on Saturday afternoon.
There are two teachers to hangle 168 students at a government-run free primary school in Memari here, which has posed a roadblock before the smooth academic activities.
Teenagers are often blamed for not focusing on their studies, not working hard enough, not helping in household chores, lacking overall discipline in their dayto-day life and many other things.
