AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): After B.Ed undergoing students failed to meet the Education Minister in the morning at his residence, the agitators gheraoed Higher Education Office and locked the main gate. According to report, Minister Tapan Chakraborty had left his residence in the early morning to join few programmes at Kailashahar where the Chief Minister also will remain present. As a result, the resented undergoing B.Ed candidates in demand of extending the application submission date and allowing them to sit in the next TET gheraoed Higher Education Office on Thursday office hours. Sadar SDM S. Choudhury tried to manage the situation asking the students to hold peace but the agitators were unready to unlock the gate unless their demands are fulfilled.

Their chief demand is : "exam form filling up date should be extended upto July 31st", so that the students can get their marksheets in hands.  

A clash of arguments erupted in front of Higher Education Office among students and govt officials while the protest was going on as the students declined to open the gate unless a permanent solution is done to the problem.

On March 29, 2017 Tripura Govt lost the illegally appointed 10,323 teachers case the Supreme Court causing a huge face loss for Tripura Govt fueled various protests inside the state led by unemployed/ fixed or irregular employed youths.

SC repeated Tripura High Court’s May 7, 2014's verdict in cancelling 10323 illegally appointed teacher jobs. SC divisional bench chaired by Justice Adharsha Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Lalit heard a petition filed by advocate Salman Khurshid. On Govt side, there was Advocate P P Rao and on behalf of 10,323 Lawyer Rajib Dhaon and J P Kamad were present. Reportedly, in total 10,323 teachers' jobs were cancelled by Tripura High Court in 2014 on May 7 after spotting irregularities in the recruitment process following a section of deprived qualified youths for the posts. Supreme Court ordered for further TET Examination within 31st December, 2017 for all the teachers who lost their jobs, but the interview process was asked to begin within 31st May, 2017.

State Govt on May-27 gave advertisement for TET exam against 14000 teachers vacant posts following Supreme Court's order. Such a huge vacancy had never announced earlier, but with SC's order the B.Ed qualified candidates of state got the opportunity to sit in TET. But the undergoing B.Ed students just for 2 months gap will not be able to sit in the exam after studying 2 years of B.Ed degree at B.Ed colleges. Thus this protest was led by those undergoing B.Ed students to meet the facility of sitting in TET-2017.