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The education cell of the Trinamool Congress now boasts of 20,000 teachers.
“Earlier we neither had our own teachers’ unions nor supporters in the teaching community. The organisations of the Congress and SUCI were mainly the voice of the Opposition. In early 2000, we started to get our own members and now we have at least 20,000 to 25,000 teachers with us,” said Shobhan Deb Chattopadhyay, Trinamool MLA.
Unlike the ruling CPM, which has strong unions in primary and secondary level schools, as well as in colleges and universities, the Trinamool-aligned teachers work under the banner of the party’s education cell. The party, however, plans to soon form different unions for each of the levels.
“We have plans to set up our own organisations at primary and secondary school levels, as well as college and university levels. We have got the various groups registered, but at present the Trinamool Congress Siksha Cell is the nodal organisation,” said Chitta Ranjan Mandal, president of Trinamool’s education cell.
Mandal, a professor of physics at Jadavpur University, said that in future the general council of the education cell will frame educational policies of the Trinamool Congress.
According to the members of the cell, they are trying to induct at least a few thousand active members in each district.
With the rise in the membership number in its education cell, the party, meanwhile, laid down policies and programmes that will be undertaken by the cell.
The cell is planning to launch agitations on the issue of elections of district primary council chairman. It also plans to protest the unit tests and the grading system at the secondary level.
“Since last one month, we are protesting in East Midnapore against the election of the district primary school chairman. Moreover, the unitary tests being conducted in the schools are reducing the number of teaching days,” said Dibyendu Mukherjee, general secretary of the Trinamool’s education cell.
With the government planning to introduce no detention policy till Class VIII, we are taking a note of it and planning for larger agitation on this, Mukherjee added. In universities too — like University of Calcutta and Jadavpur
University — some of the faculty members are aligning with the Trinamool.
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i support and wish heartily this siksha cell will grow up naturally. To the best of my knowledge this cell will think about the proper way of education.best wishes heartily.
Interested to enroll to the tronamool teachers congress but are unable to do so untill this day due to correct information and the reliable contact person. please send the email containing the list of contact persons and address for further course of actions. we'd like to participate actively for the betterment of academic standard of the mass envisaged by the party as it has enshrined in the party constitution Art II. we shall be much obliuged if our querries are cordially adressed.
we want to join trinamool education cell as a active member. earlier there was no teacher association in the state under tmc.now we heard about trinamool siksha cell so we want to form an organization for primary teacher in kolkata distric under the banner of trinamool congress.being a teacher in a primary school in kolkata district want actively participate in the union along with many teachers with us who want to join please send me the mail regarding formation of this union and whom to contact for this thanking you amit mahato asst. teacher