United Forum of Teachers (UFT) still waiting from response from chief secretary and education secretary , planning to write to CM

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, June 15, 2026

The newly formed United Forum of Teachers (UFT) is still waiting for a suitable response to their representation from the chief secretary J.K.Sinha and education secretary Milind Ramtake to their representation seeking arrangement for their B-Ed and DEL-ED prior to reinstatement in service . The advocate of the UFT in their bid for reinstatement in service , Amrit Lal Saha said in the letter that prior to the illegal retrenchment from service of the 10,323 teachers with effect from April 1 2020, the state government had received two consecutive directions from the union ministry of education that all untrained teachers recruited before August 23 2010 should be made to undergo B-Ed and DEL-ED training but the governments in the state did not act upon the direction . In stead the erstwhile left front government had made the 10,323 teachers ad hoc after making a petition in the supreme court while after the similar direction given in 2019 the ruling BJP government had only once got the tenure of teachers extended but finally retrenched them from service with effect from April 1 2020 in a totally illegal manner as the question of en masse dismissal had never been mandated by any court of law and the entire legal and constitutional process had been violated in doing so .

Advocate Amrit Lal Saha said that recently in a case between an organization of Maharashtra and the state government the suprement court extended the period of having the teachers trained through B-Ed and DL-ED degrees by March 2028. This has further strengthened the case of 10,323 teaachers who were retrenched by a single notification in a highly illegal way. He said that the UFT will also send a copy of their representation to the chief minister and law secretary and try to meet in deputation with the former . “ The copies of the letters from union ministry of education in the form of directions to the state government as well as the latest supreme court judgment in the Maharashtra case , based on Article 142 of the constitution have bolstered our position ; there are also three pending cases-one writ and two SLPs in the supreme court ; we are therefore hopeful of finally getting justice but we are hoping for a positive and compassionate stand from the state government” said advocate Amrit Lal Saha.

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