Yet another big feather in the cap of the West Bengal "humanitarian" government!!! After having tourtured, manhandled, & humiliated the highest professional section of the society, the temporary college teachers, for years, the "benign" West Bengal government, today on the 21st of May, 2010, enacted another such cunning stagecraft, when the Higher Education Minister, Mr. Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury, could not or rather did not, keep his appointment with the delegates of the college part-time lecturers, on purpose. He was however maliciously "kind" to inform the convenor, Mrs. Elora Biswas, only after hundred delegates from all parts of the state, wasting their precious time, energy & money waited for him in front of Bikash Bhavan for at least 45 minutes, that he was "sorry" for not being able to keep his appointment, as he had blissfully forgotten about it. It is surprising indeed, how the Education Minister of the state, himself having been a teacher once, could humiliate other teachers thus.Even a couple of days ago the appointment was confirmed from his office. The minister did not, for obvious reasons, bother to inform our Convenor before, about his incapability to keep the appointment, as this was quite pre-planned, just to humiliate more the teachers, whom the enlightened Left Government have considered to be the backbone of the society. The Minister was too busy to attend the 34th anniversary of the Left Front Government, at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, which prevented him and his "educated" office from showing a little respect to the part-time teachers who had spent hours to assemble at the venue.It is frustrating indeed, that we have no other way of survival, except by appealing to this "inhuman" government for our honourable regularization.
