AGARTALA, September 21 (TIWN): Students’ Community of Tripura on Monday staged a protest rally from Vivekananda Stadium to Tripura Public Service Commission and placed a memorandum to the Chairperson demanding to cancel the unfair recommendation against the posts of the ST reserved for the appointment of assistant professors in Government Degree colleges (Higher education).

They further urged for fresh recommendation to the ST reserved posts for assistant professors from the ST eligible candidates who have cleared NET/ SLET/ SET.

They claimed that the recruitment process for the Assistant Professors in the colleges run by the State Government, declared by the TPSC on September 15, 2015 has appeared illegal and arbitrary. The advertisement for the recruitment is Advt.No.08/2014 (item no.-01).

Therefore, ST Students’ Community of Tripura claimed that many of the eligible ST candidates were deprived from their legitimate rights. Besides, they also alleged that the TPSC has done intentionally to deprive the eligible candidates from the ST’s category and shown its intention to favour the UR candidates.

The mentioned name of the students who were deprived from the their legitimate rights- Ratan Debbarma, the only eligible candidates from ST category to 10 number allocated reserved posts in the Bengali subject.

Besides, Mary Rupini one of the three eligible candidates for the subject English, Tapas Chakma, Biplab Chakma and Hamari Jamatia are three of the four eligible candidates from ST category in the subject of Political Science. For the Philosophy Jekap Halam and Jaharlal Debbarma were two of the four eligible candidates from ST category. 

Therefore, they demanded to cancel the unfair recommendation and to end the problems at the earliest possible for smooth functioning of the education in the colleges by way of fresh recommendation to the posts from the eligible candidates belonging to the ST candidates.