A section of teachers rendered jobless by a recent Supreme Court verdict began their journey to Delhi on Monday to broaden their agitation beyond West Bengal. 

The teachers plan to hold a sit-in at Jantar Mantar on April 16. Mehboob Mondal, one of the spokespersons for the ‘Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum,’ said around 70 affected teachers “dismissed following the Supreme Court’s April 3 order scrapping 26,000 teaching and non-teaching jobs” left from Kolkata’s Esplanade area in two buses.