West Bengal Board of Primary Education on Tuesday moved an appeal before the Calcutta High Court against an order of it cancelling jobs of around 32,000 untrained primary school teachers, claiming that they have obtained Diploma in Elementary Education (DElEd) within the specified time thereafter.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Tuesday modified his May 12 order, in which jobs of 36,000 primary teachers were cancelled, reducing the number to around 32,000 after the petitioners' lawyer Tarunjyoti Tiwary pointed out that the number of untrained teachers would be to that tune.
The board moved the appeal against the order of Justice Gangopadhyay before a division bench presided by Justice Subrata Talukdar, claiming that the primary school teachers, whose jobs were ordered to be cancelled, have obtained training in DElEd within the extended time frame allowed by the Union government to West Bengal and some other states.
