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Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) Nearly 50 per cent of the candidates who have qualified for the interview stage in the new recruitment drive for higher secondary teachers in government schools in West Bengal are freshers, according to the list published by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).
The fresh recruitment is being done to fill the vacancies created after nearly 26,000 school appointments were canceled by a division bench of the Supreme Court earlier this year.
Since the 2016 order canceling the entire panel resulted in many serving teachers, who were considered spotless, also losing their jobs, the Supreme Court allowed these spotless candidates to participate in the new recruitment process.
As per the new recruitment process, the written examination for both secondary and higher secondary teachers was held in September this year, and the list of candidates who qualified for the interview was published on Saturday.
However, evaluation of the list of candidates who qualified for the interview revealed that only 50 per cent of the “unblemished” teachers who lost jobs have secured a place in the merit list for the interview, the second stage of the new recruitment process.
Around 20,000 candidates, who appeared for the written examination for the new recruitment process, have qualified for the interview. The interview process for verification of their documents will start from Tuesday.
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 both the High Court and the apex court, neither the State Education Department nor the Commission submitted two separate lists to separate the “spotless” candidates from the “tainted” candidates, who have been proven beyond any doubt to have obtained school-jobs by paying money.
The apex court had directed that the entire new recruitment process would have to be completed by December 31 this year.
–IANS
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