Kolkata
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday said the ongoing teacher recruitment situation would beryllium resolved soon, adding that ‘tainted’ teachers could beryllium accommodated successful alternate roles. Her remarks, made up of Teacher’s Day, person drawn crisp disapproval from groups representing ‘untainted’ teachers.
Speaking astatine the Shiksha Ratna programme astatine the Dhono Dhanyo auditorium successful Kolkata, Ms. Banerjee said, “After moving for truthful galore years, galore of them person been termed ‘tainted and ineligible’. I americium looking into this substance done ineligible means. They whitethorn not enactment arsenic teachers according to the court’s order, but whether they tin enactment successful Group C oregon D, is being considered.”
The Chief Minister said her authorities was “humanitarian” and not bringing authorities into the issue. She besides assured that non-teaching unit who mislaid their jobs pursuing the Supreme Court’s April 3 bid would beryllium considered nether a caller hiring process aft the caller recruitment process for the teachers is over.
However, representatives of ‘untainted’ teachers expressed dismay. “The ‘untainted’ teachers and non-teaching unit who did not enactment successful immoderate corruption person been sacrificed successful this full scam. They are assuring the ‘tainted’ candidates of jobs. Whereas galore of america whitethorn not beryllium capable to walk the caller exams again which we had already passed successful 2016, she has not fixed immoderate assurances to the ‘untainted’ radical who volition suffer their jobs,” said Mehboob Mondal, person of the Jogyo Shikkhok Shikkhika Adhikar Mancha (JSSAM).
A radical of ‘untainted’ teachers staged a protestation extracurricular the Legislative Assembly, criticising Ms. Banerjee’s remarks. Leader of the Opposition and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari met the protesters and extended support. “It is intolerable for radical who gave exams successful 2016 to vie with caller candidates successful 2025,” Mr. Adhikari said. On September 1, helium wrote to Chief Secretary Manoj Pant urging reinstatement of ‘untainted’ teachers aft the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) published a database of ‘tainted’ candidates.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court connected Thursday dismissed the plea of hundreds of ‘tainted’ candidates seeking to look successful the caller recruitment process of the WBSSC. A akin verdict had been fixed by the Calcutta High Court earlier successful the week.
The WBSSC published the names of 1,806 ‘tainted’ candidates connected August 30 and 31, pursuing a Supreme Court directive. While the tribunal ordered that specified candidates beryllium barred from the recruitment process, astir 1,400 had already applied and admit cards were issued, which present basal cancelled.
On April 3, 2025, the Supreme Court upheld a Calcutta High Court bid annulling astir 26,000 teaching and non-teaching appointments successful West Bengal, ruling that the 2016 recruitment process was “fraught with fraud and irregularities.” The full sheet was cancelled arsenic the State authorities and the Commission failed to abstracted ‘tainted’ from ‘untainted’ candidates.
The caller recruitment examinations are scheduled for September 7 and 14.
