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Teaching occupation aspirants connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) surrounded and blocked the conveyance of Trinamool Congress leaders successful the Barasat area, demanding contiguous appointments. A metropolis tribunal asked West Bengal Minister to beryllium contiguous earlier the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on September 25 and September 26 for questioning successful the schoolhouse recruitment scam.
The hundreds of protestors said they had cleared the West Bengal Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) exam successful 2022, but are yet to get placed successful authorities schoolhouse jobs.
Violent clashes erupted betwixt the occupation aspirants and the section constabulary aft the protestors refused to fto the Trinamool Congress leaders permission without answers. TMC’s elder person and MP from Dum Dum constituency Sougata Ray, and MLA Nirmal Ghosh from Panihati constituency were stopped adjacent Barasat’s Rabindra Bhawan (public hall) connected Jessore Road, wherever they were expected to be an lawsuit of the West Bengal Education Department. The lawsuit was expected to beryllium attended by Education Minister Bratya Basu. They were stranded connected the roadworthy for implicit an hr arsenic protestors demanded jobs and justice.
Police baton-charged galore to bring the concern nether power and detained galore of the protestors during the clashes. A immense contingent of the Rapid Action Force was besides contiguous connected site.
Many aspirants besides laid down connected the roadworthy successful an effort to halt the MP and MLA from entering the lawsuit premises.
Job aspirants said that galore of them were injured successful the clashes and manhandled. “We bash not consciousness similar surviving anymore nether specified atrocities and unfair treatment,” a idiosyncratic with disablement who sustained carnal injuries during the clashes told a section media transmission portion sitting connected the footpath adjacent the protestation tract and wiping his tears.
“We came present for a morganatic origin and inquire for what is rightly ours. But they are beating america up and arresting us,” different protestor accused.
Protestors besides claimed that determination are astatine slightest 50,000 vacant posts successful superior and precocious superior schoolhouse teacher roles and they should beryllium recruited successful these posts.
However, connected September 11 Mr. Basu had said determination are nary circumstantial figures for the fig of vacant positions successful schools disposable in their section astatine the moment. “The districts person to nonstop this data. Once the reports travel in, we volition people a notification soon,” Mr. Basu said.
The 2022 TET aspirants person conducted aggregate protests implicit the past fewer years. Another convulsive protestation erupted extracurricular the West Bengal Assembly connected September 11, 2025.
In a related development, results for the 2023 TET exams are acceptable to beryllium published connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025). Over 2 lakh 80 1000 candidates had appeared this exam and person waited for implicit 1.5 years to get the results.
Meanwhile, the designated ED tribunal successful Kolkata has said that the ED officials cannot instrumentality Minister of Correctional Administration Chandranath Sinha into custody for questioning successful the schoolhouse recruitment scam case. The tribunal upheld his bail but besides said that helium has to look earlier the ED officials connected September 25, 26 for questioning. Mr Sinha surrendered earlier the designated ED tribunal connected September 6 and was granted anticipatory bail.
After erstwhile Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, Mr. Sinha was the 2nd curate against whom the ED filed a chargesheet successful the 2016 schoolhouse recruitment scam. Mr Chatterjee was arrested successful 2022 and inactive remains successful judicial custody.
An probe was launched against Mr Sinha nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act aft the ED officials recovered ₹42 lakh currency from his location successful Bolpur successful March, 2024.
On April 3, the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court bid that cancelled the assignment of each candidates successful the 2016 sheet owed to irregularities successful the hiring process. They besides asked the WBSSC to behaviour a caller recruitment process wrong December 31.
