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Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) A petition was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Monday challenging the results of the written examination for new recruitment of higher secondary teachers in government schools in West Bengal.
The results were published by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Saturday night.
The fresh recruitment is taking place to fill the vacancies created by the cancellation of nearly 26,000 school jobs by a division bench of the Supreme Court earlier this year. Delivering its verdict in April this year, the apex court had barred “tainted” teachers, who had secured jobs by paying them, from participating in the new recruitment process.
In the petition filed before a single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court, the petitioner had claimed that the names of several “tainted” candidates were in the list of candidates who qualified for the interview published by the WBSSC on Saturday.
The petitioner had questioned how the names of these “tainted” candidates could appear in the merit list of candidates who qualified for the interview when the apex court had barred them from participating in the new recruitment process, the first stage of which was the written examination, which was held in September this year.
The petition has been accepted by Justice Sinha’s bench and the matter is expected to be heard this week.
Around 20,000 candidates who appeared for the written examination for the new recruitment process have qualified for the interview. The process of verification of their documents will start from November 18.
The Supreme Court, on April 3 this year, upheld an earlier order of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court canceling the entire panel of WBSSC for 2016. The Supreme Court also accepted the contention of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel had to be quashed because, despite repeated insistence by the High Court as well as the Apex Court, neither the State Education Department nor the Commission submitted two separate lists separating “tainted” candidates from “tainted” candidates.
The apex court directed that the entire new recruitment process will have to be completed by December 31 this year. Although the Supreme Court barred “tainted” teachers from participating in the new recruitment process, it allowed “spotless” teachers to participate.
–IANS
Source/DPB