After a long wait, the written examination for the recruitment of Group-C workers of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) was held in the state on Sunday, amidst tight security arrangements.
A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted conditional bail to former West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) advisor Santi Prasad Sinha in connection with his alleged involvement in the multi-crore cash-for-school jobs case in the state.
The Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha will be hearing a crucial case on the alleged and gross irregularities in the fresh recruitment of higher secondary teachers in the state-run schools of West Bengal.
The written examinations for fresh recruitment of teachers were conducted separately for the secondary and higher secondary sections in September this year, and recently, the results of both the written examinations have been declared.
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.
The protesting jobless teachers and non-teaching employees on Thursday have come down heavily on the state government and WBSSC for the untimely death of their colleague Prabeen Karmakar.
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose's office on Thursday announced that he has sanctioned the prosecution of two heavyweight Trinamool Congress leaders in the case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the multi-crore cash-for-school job scam.
The Supreme Court also accepted the observation of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel had to be cancelled because of the failure on the part of the state government and the commission to segregate the "genuine" candidates from the "tainted" ones.
The matter, as scheduled, came up for hearing at Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi on Monday afternoon.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday, announced compensation for the non-teaching staff in Group C and Group D categories in state-run schools who have lost jobs following an order of the Supreme Court earlier this month.
