Agitating candidates who are demanding jobs as per the 2012 School Service Commission panel, today sought Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's intervention in the matter after Education Minister Partha Chatterjee dismissed any job offer for them.
The agitating SSC candidates this afternoon staged a road block at Karunamoyee cross-roads in Salt Lake, which continued for about two and half hours, causing massive traffic snarls in the area.
They called off their protest demonstration after the Bidhannagar Police assured them of arranging a meeting with the Chief Minister as per their demand.
The agitators, however, would continue with their hunger strike, which started on January 27 at the WBSSC office in Salt Lake.
Earlier, a team of five agitating SSC candidates met Chatterjee who dismissed any possibility of the state offering them jobs in government-aided schools.
Stating that the state government was "sympathetic" to the SSC candidates, Chatterjee said the state "could arrange some alternative" if the candidates placed some "logical" demands.
"We are sympathetic towards them. We can work out on some alternative, but we are not in a position to offer them jobs right now," Chatterjee told reporters after a delegation of five SSC candidates met him with their demands.
"We will request them to think on a logical demand, which can be reviewed," he said.
About 96 SSC candidates went on a hunger strike from January 27 at the WBSSC office claiming that though being empanelled in the WBSSC examination-2012, they were not given jobs in government-aided schools.
Several were hospitalised after their health condition deteriorated. The candidates also submitted a memorandum to Governor K N Tripathi seeking his intervention to solve the deadlock.
