On May 30, WBSSC had issued a notification for recruitment of 35,726 assistant lecturers for Classes 9-12 in State-aided and -run colleges in adherence to a Supreme Court directive. File | Photo Credit: ANI
An on-line utility portal was launched on June 16 to facilitate the method, with the unique July 14 deadline getting prolonged to July 21.
“We expect the determine to go up,” West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) chairman Siddhartha Majumdar mentioned.
On May 30, WBSSC had issued a notification for recruitment of 35,726 assistant lecturers for Classes 9-12 in State-aided and -run colleges in adherence to a Supreme Court directive.
The prime court docket had requested the State authorities to file a compliance affidavit on the initiation of the recruitment course of on or earlier than May 31. In April, the SC had scrapped your complete 2016 State Level Selection Test (SLST) recruitment panel, and annulled 25,753 appointments of lecturers for Classes 9-12 in addition to Group C and Group D workers.
In the 2016 WBSSC recruitment checks, over 3 lakh candidates had utilized for educating jobs, one other WBSSC official mentioned.
After the apex court docket’s April order, WBSSC had recognized 15,403 out of 17,206 lecturers as “not discovered to be particularly tainted”, permitting them to proceed receiving salaries till December. The remaining 1,804 lecturers have been barred from returning to varsities.
Referring to the April 3 verdict and the following order on April 17, WBSSC had earlier mentioned, “The fee and the State authorities have already utilized for overview of the mentioned judgment and order, and this train is strictly topic to the result of the overview petition and tips of the court docket to be adopted by the fee and the federal government.”
Reacting to the contemporary utility course of, Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum office-bearer Chinmoy Mondal mentioned, “We don’t have anything to say concerning the variety of candidates. All we are able to say is those that had handed the 2016 exams can’t sit with their college students who’ve graduated, executed masters and now are aspiring to be lecturers.”
“After the SC order, the fee and the Education Department shouldn’t have undertaken the method in such a rush, and as a substitute, may have labored on presenting a water-tight case for ‘untainted lecturers’ earlier than the apex court docket,” he added.
Published – July 18, 2025 08:02 am IST
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