PTTI students ransack Edu Council office

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Posted online: Friday , January 04, 2008 at 12:00:00

Kolkata, January 3 Students seem to have lost patience with the continuing stalemate over the future of primary teachers’ training institutes in the state. Around 20 students ransacked Chairman of the Primary Education Council Sulapani Bhattacharya’s office, allegedly after they were not allowed to meet him.

Representatives of the West Bengal Primary Teachers Training Students Union (WBPTTSU) and the Chhatra Bloc (students’ wing of the Forward Bloc) had assembled at the chairman’s office in Salt Lake at 1 pm today.

Inspector-in-Charge of Bidhannagar East police station Madan Pal said two students — Partha Chatterjee and Saswat Bhattacharya — had been arrested for ransacking the office.

WBPTTSU general secretary Pintu Parui said the security personnel and staff had tried to misbehave with them. “We demand that the government take action to end the stalemate as soon as possible. Otherwise we will hold a statewide road blockade on January 7,” said Parui.

In early 2006, Tulsi Bakshi had filed a public interest litigation alleging that a large number of PTTIs in the state were functioning without the approval of the National Council of Technical Education.

In an interim order on March 3, 2006, the Calcutta High Court had directed the state government to stop admission to PTTIs. It declared that certificates issued by the unrecognised institutes will not be accepted. Thousands were supposed to appear in the June 2006 examination, which was cancelled at the eleventh hour. No examination has been held since then. Students resorted to various means of protest, including hunger strikes.

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PTTI STATUS by Surajit Das on 17 Jul 2008

I want to know what is doing our State Minister Mr.Partha Dey? Mr.Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury had already settled for the B.Ed. then what for we, the PTTI students are neglected to be legal? After all the B.Ed students were not possessing the NCTE permission

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west bengal by pallab singha on 22 Apr 2008

TO pls let me know about the case details of west bengal primary teachers trainning ,(1). case no,(2)case type(3)name of the hon'ablejudge(4)name of the preson who is taking acre of this case the honable low year(5)witch is the next date for hairing.with regds pallab singha.0

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PTTI Kolkata by Pitarun Mukherjee on 01 Mar 2008

I am also one of the unfortunate PTTI student of kolkata . I and my brother went throuhg that training and has spent Rs.30000 as course fee . With additional expenses it will go around Rs.60000 . But in complete darkness about the status of the case . Cannot decide what to do . Will the hard work of one whole year go in vain ?

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