Final decision on teachers’ resignation in 24 hrs

Mou Chakraborty
Kolkata, June 22, 2007
The students of South City Day College also known as Heramba Chandra College on Friday submitted a written apology to their principal, but teachers are yet to take back their resignations.
On Thursday, angry and tired of being gheraoed by the SFI-ruled students’ union, all 30 teachers had sent their resignations to principal Khogen Adhikari. The SFI supporters had alleged the college was not maintaining transparency in the admission process and gheraoed the teachers from 12 noon till 10.15 pm. The teachers countered that with the college starting online admission procedure from this year, the SFI was having problems in admitting their students and hence was creating trouble.
“The students have given a written apology and has promised to cooperate in running the college smoothly. I have requested all the teachers to take back their resignation letters but they have asked a day’s time for a rethink,” said Adhikari.
“If they decide to take back their resignations then the matter will end there. Otherwise, I will have to place the resignation letters at the next governing body meeting of the college,” the principal said. College authorities are convinced that the teachers will take back their resignation letters. The chairman of the college governing body Arijit Das, has also requested the teachers to change their decision.
Though teachers have refused to join work until they take their final decision, they have promised to help with the admission procedure. “We will go ahead with admissions from the first merit list on Saturday. I understand the problem of the teachers and support their view,” said Adhikari.
Teachers are quite perturbed about the situation they face in college. “We come here to impart education. Why will we get gheraoed repeatedly on every pretext? We are not going to tolerate it anymore,” said teachers of the college. Not only that, non-teaching employees are also not ready to get back to work unless the college authorities guarantee the students will “now learn to behave themselves”.
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