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Mamata urges jobless teachers to return to schools

Kolkata April 22 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday appealed to the teachers rendered jobless following a recent Supreme Court order on the recruitment scam not to continue their protest under the scorching sun and urged them to return to school, assuring them that they would receive their salaries.
“Why are the teachers sitting there? Please return to schools. There's no need to worry — you will receive your salaries. The state government will address your concerns within the legal framework. As for Group C and D, please wait for the legal consultation. We will conduct another review soon," the Chief Minister said while inaugurating a 125 MW solar photovoltaic farm, also known as solar energy park, in Goaltore in West Medinipur district.

The Chief Minister’s appeal came in the wake of thousands of teachers laying siege to the West Bengal School Service Commission headquarters in Salt Lake, surrounding SSC chief Siddhartha Majumdar and others for nearly 24 hours from Monday. The protesters were demanding the publication of the lists of eligible and tainted candidates from the 2016 teachers' panel.
“Why do you need the list of the tainted and untainted teachers. It will not help you. The state government is there to take care of it. You go back to your schools and take your classes properly. We will do everything possible under the provisions of law,” the chief minister said.
“There are some people who cannot give jobs but are ready to take them away. If I had been in Kolkata, I would have sorted the matter out. Please don’t fall into any kind of provocation,” she said.
The problem with the appointment of the teachers stated when, a Supreme Court division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar cancelled the entire 2016 WBSSC panel of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching posts due to the failure of the state government and WBSSC to distinguish between “genuine” candidates and those who secured jobs by paying bribes.

However, later Education Minister Bratya Basu, and the state government in a meeting with a delegation of the untainted candidates assured them that a segregated list would be published by April 21 in accordance with the legal advice. However, the deadline passed on Monday.
Meanwhile Banerjee today inaugurated a solar energy park in Goaltore, a village in the Garhbeta II CD block of the Medinipur Sadar subdivision in Paschim Medinipur district. The solar PV power plant, set up with a total investment of Rs 750 crore, marks a significant step toward sustainable energy in the state.
Of the total investment, Rs 150 crore (20%) has been contributed by the West Bengal government, while the remaining Rs 600 crore (80%) is being funded by the German development bank KfW.
The project was executed under a turnkey Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract, which also includes five years of operation and maintenance.

The plant has a capacity of 125 MW, with a Capacity Utilisation Factor (CUF) of 18.50%. It is expected to export approximately 202.069 million units (MUs) of electricity annually to the grid. The levelized tariff for the project has been set at Rs 3.31 per kWh.
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