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The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) re-released the database of 1,806 ‘tainted’ teaching aspirants who were recruited aft a State-level enactment trial successful 2016, this clip with further details, pursuing an bid by the Calcutta High Court.
In April this year, astir 26,000 teaching and non-teaching appointments made by the SSC successful 2016 were annulled by the Supreme Court connected grounds of a “vitiated and tainted” hiring process. The apical tribunal besides directed the West Bengal authorities to behaviour caller recruitments for teaching positions by December 31.
In August, the SSC had released a database of 1,804 tainted candidates with lone their names and rotation numbers. The database published connected Thursday carries the names of the candidates, their rotation numbers, parents’ names, subjects they were selected to teach, and their day of birth.
On Thursday (November 27, 2025), the Calcutta High Court directed the SSC to people successful the nationalist domain the database of ‘tainted’ candidates who were appointed aft the expiry of the 2016 enactment list, arsenic good the optical people designation (OMR) sheets of the candidates who took the 2025 recruitment trial for Classes 9 to 12.
Justice Amrita Sinha noted that it was to “rule retired immoderate illegality” successful the ongoing recruitment process and guarantee that it is “fair and transparent from time one”.
This follows a Supreme Court bid of November 26 directing that matters related to the recruitment of teachers successful West Bengal beryllium heard by the Calcutta High Court. In its order, the apical tribunal said the High Court volition guarantee that nary tainted candidate is permitted to gaffe done successful caller selections, and that the database of tainted candidates is placed successful the nationalist domain with afloat details.
“The SSC has conducted examinations transparently. Our occupation is to guarantee that SSC tin implicit the caller recruitment by December 31, hurdle-free… The SSC is pursuing the court’s orders to the word. We are hopeful of and committed to completing this year’s recruitments with utmost transparency,” Education Minister Bratya Basu said connected Thursday.
He claimed that arsenic opposed to the remainder of the country, the recruitment introspection conducted by the SSC this twelvemonth was followed by the nationalist merchandise of the question paper, exemplary reply keys, and database of candidates selected for the adjacent measurement of the recruitment process.
On the different hand, Leader of Opposition of the West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Suvendu Adhikari accused Chief Minister Minister Mamata Banerjee of being progressive successful the fraudulent teacher recruitment process of 2016 and demanded strict ineligible enactment against her.
