The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) on Thursday released a complete list of 1,806 candidates from the 2016 recruitment panel, who were previously identified as “tainted and disqualified” by the courts.
A section of the SSC candidates moved Calcutta High court on Monday allegedly over the presence of tainted candidates in the recently-published SSC list of candidates for interviews.
A teaching job aspirant, who appeared in State Level Selection Test (SLST) conducted by West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) in September, has decided to move the Calcutta High Court after his name did not feature in the SSC results.
Amidst legal tangles over SSC tainted candidates, the commission today published the list of about 35,726 vacant posts for which examinations are scheduled on 7 and 14 September.
The high court also reprimanded such candidates for filling the petition and questioned their intention.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Trinamul Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha after conducting a raid at his house in Burwan of West Bengal's Murshidabad district in connection with the SSC recruitment corruption case.
Police today detained a leader of unemployed teachers’ protests just hours before a planned march on the School Service Commission (SSC) headquarters in Kolkata on Monday morning, intensifying tensions around a long-running recruitment scandal that has rocked the state’s education system.
As West Bengal’s ruling Trinamul Congress took out its annual Martyrs’ Day rally Monday, over 200 jobless school teachers — previously selected through the state’s School Service Commission (SSC) — are supposed to leave for Delhi tonight to protest what they allege is unjust dismissal due to corruption in the recruitment process.
The Division Bench of Justice Soumen Sen today put a poser to both the School Service Commission and the state, asking the SSC on whether the Commission was in a position to argue for the ‘tainted’ candidates or whether it had any legal standing to argue for them.
With the date of issuing notification on fresh examination to recruit teachers by the School Service Commission (SSC) in sync with the order of the Supreme court inching closer, the jobless teachers besieged Bikash Bhawan today.
