Kolkata, Sep 16 (TIWN) In a partial sigh of relief the Calcutta High Court gave an interim stay on the transfer of the contract teachers of Sishu Siksha Kendra (SSK) on Wednesday. The order given by Justice Sugat Bhattacharya said that the plaintiff teachers cannot be transferred till November 30.

The issue of the transfer of contractual teachers came into the limelight after five of the protesting teachers — all of them women — consumed poison in front of Bikash Bhawan, the state education department headquarters. One of them was a teacher from Balagarh in Hooghly district who was transferred to Ratua in Malda district of North Bengal.  The teachers protesting under the banner of Sikshak Oikya Mancha (Teachers’ Unity Forum) complained that the government is taking revenge on them because they had demonstrated in front of the state headquarters at Nabanna on August 16. A day after they were issued transfer orders.