KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday introduced the schedule for a contemporary choice assessments for twenty-four,203 college lecturers who misplaced their jobs following the Supreme Courtroom’s April 3 order within the bribe-for-employment case and confused that all must comply with the decision that requires the contemporary recruitment course of to begin by Could 31.
Howrah: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the media at State Secretariat in Howrah on Tuesday (PTI)
Banerjee additionally introduced that Group C and D college staffers, who’ve been barred by the Supreme Courtroom from taking the contemporary check, can be recruited to different authorities departments.
“We have already filed our review petition but the Supreme Court is in recess because of the summer holidays. We have no time. The advertisement for the tests will be published on May 30. We will have no answer if the court asks after the summer recess why we did not follow its April 3 and April 17 orders,” Banerjee advised a press convention at Nabanna, the state secretariat.
Banerjee additionally mentioned a further 11,517 new posts for sophistication 9 and 10 lecturers, 9,912 posts for sophistication 11 and 12 lecturers, and 1,571 vacancies on the Group C and D degree have been created beneath the identical choice course of. With these, the assessments will likely be carried out to fill greater than 44,000 vacancies.
Banerjee mentioned the state authorities had filed a petition however needed to be ready in case its request was rejected.
“We have to be ready for all the possibilities. It is not that we want to do this. We are under compulsion. I urge everybody to take the selection test. If our review petition yields good results, then we can ignore the selection process. But if the court’s order is not satisfactory, then we will have to go by the test results,” Banerjee mentioned.
“As directed by the court, age limits will not apply to those who are more than 40 years old. Moreover, you will be granted an advantage for your on-the-job experience,” she mentioned.
The Supreme Courtroom on April 3 cancelled the appointment of 25,752 college lecturers and non-teaching employees (Group-C and D) from the 2016 recruitment panel, saying there was no strategy to segregate the contaminated from the non-tainted.
Outlining the schedule, Banerjee mentioned the net purposes might be stuffed out from June 16 to July 14.
The panel will likely be printed on November 15 and counselling will begin on December 20.
“If our review petition yields no positive results, then we will complete the written tests, interviews and counselling by November. Everybody should take the test or else you will lose your jobs,” mentioned Banerjee.
Banerjee additionally responded to criticism that the federal government wasn’t doing sufficient. “In Tripura, 10,000 teachers lost their jobs (when the Left Front was in power) but the current government did nothing for them. Around 69,000 teachers faced the same fate in Uttar Pradesh. You have seen the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh. Nobody got justice there.”
The lecturers are reluctant to look for the check once more.
Brindaban Ghosh, one of many leaders of the trainer teams demanding they be retained, mentioned that they had apprehended that the federal government would attempt to make them seem for an examination.
“Banerjee announced our death warrant today,” he mentioned, claiming that the chief minister had gone far past what the highest courtroom had mandated.
“I don’t think the government has any plan to save our jobs. Today, we found Mamata Banerjee trying to divert attention from the corruption in the education department, which is the key issue. She could have allotted more time for the selection process so that the hearing on the review petition could take place,” mentioned Ghosh.
“Only age relaxation is not enough to make up for the mental stress we are going through. Our families are in distress. One has to go through the entire syllabus to prepare for a competitive examination. We are in no state to do that,” he added.
In Could 2022, the Calcutta excessive courtroom ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the appointment of non-teaching employees (Group C and D) and instructing employees by the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Training between 2014 and 2021 when TMC’s 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.