urdu papers in town have been generally effusive about the west bengal chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjees completion of one hundred days in office and has enthusiastically welcomed his emphasis on information technology editorialised azad hind had this move started ten years ago the state would have been ahead of bangalore mumbai and hyderabad by now computer education should be compulsory in schools and colleges and it should be given to poor students and those belonging to the minority communities free of cost mohammad rafi ahmed of anjir bagan has written a letter to akhbaremashriq kolkata delhi faiyaz alam khan cpm councillor demanded the appointment of an urdu reporter in cmc in the monthly meeting of the corporation he justified his demand saying 15 per cent of the councillors are urdu speaking but the mayor refused to oblige saying the urdu speaking councillors can speak in hindi as well but the mayor is against urdu which possibly reflects trinamul congress stand had the party won the assembly election urdu would perhaps have been banned in the state the newspaper also carried a report criticising the state governments indifference to urdu to fill the vacancies in urdu medium schools and madarsas west bengal school service commission has brought out an advertisement in which most of the posts are reserved for the scst the very purpose behind this is to keep the posts vacant if stsc candidates are not available 20 per cent of the posts are always vacant there is an outcry in urdu speaking society against such tactics they do not oppose their st sc brothers but the commissions discriminatory policy