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Kolkata, Oct 23 (IANS) The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has decided to conduct zone-wise interviews for new recruitment of teaching staff in government schools in the state, raising questions over the fairness of zone-wise interviews.
The new recruitment process is taking place after the Supreme Court canceled 25,753 school jobs earlier this year.
The written examination for new recruitment of secondary and higher secondary categories has already been completed and the results of the written examination are expected soon, after which the interview process will start.
Now, WBSSC is in favor of conducting interviews in a zone-wise manner in five zones to expedite the interview process, as was done last time in 2016.
A WBSSC official said, “The Supreme Court directed that the new recruitment process has to be completed by December 31, 2025. So with so little time left to complete the entire recruitment process, we are in favor of zone-wise interviews, as centralized interviews at one place would take too much time.”
The five zones proposed by WBSSC for which interviews will be conducted are Southern, Northern, Eastern, Western and Southeastern.
However, like the “tainted” teachers who lost jobs after the apex court order and the “unblemished” teachers who had to appear in the written examination for new recruitment, they want the interviews to be conducted in a centralized pattern instead of zone-wise pattern.
Such “spotless” teachers, united under the banner of “Jogyo Teacher-Teacher Rights Forum”, are against these zone-wise interviews on two grounds.
Their first argument is that when WBSSC is conducting interviews in a centralized manner for the recruitment of upper primary teachers for state-run schools, the same pattern should be followed in the case of fresh recruitment of secondary and higher teachers.
“The commission cannot follow different interview patterns for different categories of teaching staff,” said a forum official.
Secondly, he said, the fairness of sector-wise interviews is highly questionable, as there are high chances of different interview score patterns for different sectors. “But a centralized interview will have a similar interview score pattern,” the forum official said.
–IANS
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