AGARTALA, Feb 22 (TIWN): Only when just counting days are left for the much awaited case to be produced before the court onFebruary 29, hopes raised among the people this hearing will decide their fate. Talking to TIWN correspondent, Minister for Education Tapan Chakraborty on Saturday stated that till now the date is not changed or postponed and is expected to be produced before the court on February 29. Besides, he also mentioned that as it is a matter of court so nothing can be assured right now but till day the date has not changed. Further, he stated that if the court changes the date then the State Government cannot do anything. It is to be mentioned here that the case was suppose to be produced before the court on October 9 but it has postponed on January 13 or 17 due to lack of documents. Later, the next hearing date has been announced on February 29. However, it is expected that atleast on this date the fate of the 10, 323 teachers will be decided. Earlier, Minister for Education Tapan Chakraborty expressed hope that with this case many of the people job and livelihood is connected. If the State win the case than the job of the 10, 323 teachers will be safe. He also mentioned that we are hoping that the recruited teachers will not have to depart from their job.

Besides, he also said that notice have to be sent to all the party which includes- Teacher, Opposition and the Government.

A division bench of the Tripura High Court, comprising Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Swapan Chandra Das, in its judgment May 7, 2014 terminated the jobs of 10,323 government school teachers citing discrimination and irregularities.

The high court also asked the state government to put in place a fresh recruitment process by December 2014 and frame a new employment policy within two months. Tripura's Left Front government recruited 1,100 post-graduate and 4,617 graduate teachers in 2010 and 4,606 under-graduate teachers in December 2013.

However, after prolonged several months also the case has not been solved yet. Every time the case has been produced before the court, it gets delayed every time. The delay in the judgement leads to uncertainty over the fate of 10, 323 teachers.