{
  "id": 10416617,
  "title": "West Bengal ICT Teachers Stage Sit-In In Kolkata, Demand Job Regularisation And Contract Extension As Jobs Face September 30 Deadline",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/west-bengal-ict-teachers-stage-sit-in-in-kolkata-demand-job",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T09:36:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/west-bengal-ict-teachers-stage-sit-in-in-kolkata-demand-job-regularisation-and-contract-extension-as-jobs-face-september-30-deadline"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Around 1,000 ICT teachers working in government and government-aided schools in West Bengal took to the streets near the Education department headquarters on Monday, staging a sit-in to demand the regularisation of their jobs. <source 7f960b77-90c> The workers were appointed through private agencies under contractual arrangements and were informed on September 30 that their jobs would come to an end, as their contracts would expire. <source 7f960b77-90c> Babai Ghosh, spokesperson for ICT Oikyo manch, expressed their uncertainty, stating that they seek job security and either have their services regularised or see their tenures extended. <source 7f960b77-90c> While the previous Trinamool Congress government had extended the tenure of teachers appointed under the first five phases of recruitment up to the age of 60, teachers from the sixth and seventh phases, including those recruited in 2022 through private agencies, continued to remain contractual. <source 7f960b77-90c> Ghosh urged either the West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari or School Education Minister Dipak Barman to meet with the teachers for negotiations, as they held high hopes from the new BJP government. <source 7f960b77-90c> The protestors gathered on one side of the road at Karunamoyee, demanding justice, with a police force present nearby.",
  "summary": "Kolkata: Around 1,000 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teachers working in government and government-aided schools in West Bengal launched a sit-in near the Education department headquarters here on Monday, demanding regularisation of their jobs. Also Watch: A spokesperson of the ICT teachers said their jobs are set to end on September 30 as they had been appointed through private…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}