Protesting teachers stopped from meeting Gujarat CM, candidate breaks down
Updated: Aug 5th, 2024
Intensifying their protest against the recruitment process, Teachers Aptitude Test (TAT) and Forest Guard candidates gathered in Gujarat’s capital city Gandhinagar today, demanding ‘fair and transparent’ hiring.
TAT candidates, especially language teachers who were seeking a meeting with CM Bhupendra Patel, were stopped at the gates of Sachivalaya. A young protestor, Pramod Chauhan, who claimed to have waited for six years for his recruitment, broke down while expressing his plight.
“The government should recruit us immediately, many of the candidates are well above the minimum age limit for recruitment. Years of hard work will go in vain if they aren’t recruited now,” Chauhan said.
A tight police presence was kept at the secretariat to ward off the protestors.
The CM was to meet them and discuss their issues. However, they were stopped right at the gates, the protestors said.
The Gujarat government recently announced the recruitment of 24,700 teachers. However, 2,750 language teachers were left out from the process, the protestors claimed. The protestors demanded a notification for the 1,852 posts that were cleared earlier.
On the other hand, around 500 Forest beat GSSSB candidates also gathered at Ram Katha Maidan in Gandhinagar and demanded cancellation of CBRT – Computer Based Recruitment Test.
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