19,000 school job losers likely to be eligible recruits: Bengal SSC
The claim came in the aftermath of a judgment of the high court on Monday, scrapping all 25,753 appointments made through the recruitment process of SLST- 2016 in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Thursday claimed that it had provided the Calcutta High Court lists of around 5,300 appointees from the 2016 school recruitment panel whose appointments were suspect, and stated that the remaining 19,000-odd teachers were “likely to be eligible”.
The commission also said it believed that the 19,000 teachers, whose appointments also stand cancelled on account of a high court judgment, might have met the necessary qualification criteria as laid down by the appointing authorities.
Talking to reporters, state SSC Chairman Siddhartha Majumdar said, “We submitted before the court lists of candidates where anomalies in recruitment were found. These lists were based on two specific irregularities in recruitment, namely Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheet manipulation and rank jumps.
The total number of such candidates for Groups C and D and teachers for classes 9-10 and 11-12 was around 5,300.”
The claim came in the aftermath of a judgment of a high court special bench on Monday, scrapping all 25,753 appointments made through the recruitment process of State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools.
The court also directed that a section of those recruits will have to return salaries drawn by them along with 12 per cent per annum interest.
In its judgment, the court stated that it chose to cancel the entire appointment panel since it became impossible to separate the grain from the chaff on account of non-cooperation from the SSC and the Bengal government in providing the names of those who were illegally recruited.
In view of the high court order, the commission will soon initiate a new recruitment process in which fresh candidates and those who lost school jobs on account of the court judgment can apply, Majumdar said.
“Our lawyers have pointed out some areas of confusion in the HC judgment on which we will seek guidance from the Supreme Court.
All the affidavits submitted to the HC in the past by SSC have been placed before the apex court,” he said.
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