Kolkata: The West Bengal authorities late on Thursday issued a notification to recruit 35,726 assistant lecturers in state-run secondary and better secondary faculties forward of the Could 31 deadline set by the Supreme Courtroom that cancelled the appointment of 25,752 faculty lecturers and non-teaching employees from the 2016 panel.
College lecturers recruited from the 2016 panel are required to seem within the check afresh to retain their jobs (Hindustan Instances)
Based on a discover uploaded to the West Bengal College Service Fee (WBSSC) web site late on Thursday night, 23,212 lecturers had been going to be recruited for lessons 9–10 and 12,514 for lessons 11–12 in secondary and better secondary faculties, respectively.
Whereas the written examination is prone to be held within the first week of September this yr, the outcomes are anticipated to be printed within the fourth week of October. The counselling and suggestion course of is predicted to begin within the final week of November.
The notification stated the WBSSC had filed a evaluate petition within the apex courtroom and the recruitment train was “subject to the outcome of the review petitions and guidelines of the Supreme Court, to be followed by the commission and the government.”
The Supreme Courtroom on April 3 scrapped the appointment of 25,752 Bengal government-appointed 2016-batch schoolteachers and non-teaching employees in reference to the bribe-for-job case. On an enchantment by the state authorities, the highest courtroom allowed the untainted assistant lecturers, who misplaced their jobs following the courtroom’s earlier order within the West Bengal recruitment rip-off, to proceed in service till contemporary hiring.
The courtroom additionally ordered the federal government to begin the recruitment course of by Could 31 and wind it up by December 31.
Most of the lecturers whose appointment was scrapped by the courtroom have been holding protests since early Could.
“Age-relaxation has been given to the teachers who lost their jobs after the verdict. I cracked the School Service Commission exam in 2016. Since then, there has been a sea change. I am 43 years old now. Teaching in a school and preparing for a competitive exam are totally different. I have to attend school, manage my family and then prepare for the test and compete with fresh candidates. What if I don’t manage? How will I sustain my family? EMI for house loan is continuing,” stated Debasish Adhikari, who teaches political science at Hazrapur Excessive College in Nadia.
Whereas the minimal and most age limits for the check are 21 years and 40 years as on January 1, 2025, the higher age restrict is relaxable by 5 years for SC and ST candidates, three years for the backward class candidates, and eight years for specially-abled candidates.
“Age relaxation will be given to the candidates who have been given the benefit of age relaxation as per order dated 03.04.25 of the Hon’ble Supreme Court,” the notification stated.
“There are several questions. Will there be a break in service if a teacher (who lost his job) clears this exam? In that case, he won’t be able to avail the benefits that have accrued over the years in service. Except for the age-relaxation, the teachers who lost their jobs won’t get any extra facilities. How is it possible to start preparations afresh again and sit a competitive exam in the next three months? We are all totally out of touch now. I have a family now, my son goes to school, my parents are ailing with one of them having to undergo dialysis. I also have to attend school. When will I study for the exam?” stated Rup Bhattacharya, 41, who teaches in a secondary faculty in East Burdwan district.
The protesting lecturers have been staging an indefinite sit-in for the previous 22 days exterior the West Bengal training division headquarters in Salt Lake.
The case hit the headlines in Could 2022 when the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ordered the central bureau of investigation (CBI) to probe the appointment of non-teaching employees (Group C and D) and instructing employees by the West Bengal College Service Fee and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling between 2014 and 2021, when Partha Chatterjee was training minister. Many appointees allegedly paid bribes within the vary of ₹5–15 lakh to get jobs after failing the choice assessments. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which began a parallel probe, arrested Chatterjee in July 2022. The ED filed costs towards him, ex-primary training board president and legislator Manik Bhattacharya, and 52 others in January this yr.