KOLKATA:Numerous Bengal faculty academics appointed in 2016 launched a contemporary agitation exterior the workplace of the West Bengal College Service Fee (WBSSC) on Monday, demanding that the authorities launch the total record of tainted and non-tainted appointments.
The Supreme Courtroom on April 3 scrapped the appointment of 25,752 Bengal authorities appointed 2016-batch faculty academics and non-teaching employees (ANI video seize)
The agitators, who claimed to have handed the choice check due to benefit and never by paying bribe, blocked the highway exterior the WBSSC workplace at Salt Lake and refused to maneuver till the total record was launched.
The Supreme Courtroom on April 3 scrapped the appointment of 25,752 Bengal authorities appointed 2016-batch faculty academics and non-teaching employees in reference to the bribe-for-job allegations. On an attraction by the state authorities, the highest court docket allowed the untainted assistant academics, who misplaced their jobs following the court docket’s earlier order within the West Bengal recruitment rip-off, to proceed in service till contemporary hiring. The court docket additionally ordered the federal government to situation advertisements for the recruitment course of by Could 31 and full the method by December 31.
WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumdar held a spherical of talks with the agitators on Monday night, hours after the Calcutta excessive court docket division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi heard a contempt petition filed by the jobless academics and noticed that WBSSC had failed to fulfill the deadline set by the court docket for releasing the record of tainted and non-tainted academics.
Neither Majumdar nor any state official made any assertion on the occasions until 9.30 pm though schooling minister Bratya Basu stated on April 10 that “WBSSC will release the lists by April 21.”
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated: “The government is looking into this. We cannot comment.”
The affected academics claimed that Majumdar advised them within the night that he may launch the record of solely these appointees cleared by the primary three counselling in 2016. The agitators refused to just accept this.
“Majumdar claimed those cleared by the fourth counselling and onwards were ineligible candidates. How can he say this after numerous court hearings since 2022? The government never said this in court,” Suman Biswas, an affected trainer, stated.
An enormous police contingent was posted exterior the WBSSC workplace amid rising pressure. The deadlock continued until 9.30 pm.
The agitators, who threatened to go for a starvation strike, threw away the meals packets and water that some WBSSC employees have been attempting to hold contained in the constructing for his or her colleagues.
In Could 2022, the then Calcutta excessive court docket decide Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the appointment of non-teaching employees (Group C and D) and educating employees by WBSSC and West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling between 2014 and 2021 when Partha Chatterjee was schooling minister. Many appointees allegedly paid bribes within the vary of ₹5-15 lakh to get jobs after failing the choice assessments.
The Enforcement Directorate, which began a parallel probe and arrested Chatterjee in July 2022, filed prices towards him, ex-primary schooling board president and legislator Manik Bhattacharya and 52 others in January this yr.