About 24,000 jobs are impacted when Calcutta High Court cancels the 2016 SSC teachers’ recruitment panel

On Monday, the Calcutta High Court canceled the 2016 job panel that was meant to choose SSC teachers for grades 9 through 12.

After discovering that the recruitment had occurred unlawfully as a consequence of the well-known cash-for-jobs scam, the Court canceled the panel established by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSCC).

The decision, which is expected to have an impact on about 24,000 employment, was made by a division bench consisting of Justices Debangsu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi. The bench also ordered those educators whose appointments.

These remarks were made in the wake of the bench’s direction to reevaluate the OMR sheets from the 2016 recruitment test as part of the continuing investigations into the multi-tier recruitment fraud involving payment for positions.

During the reevaluation, it was discovered that the instructors who were hired for the panel had been hired unlawfully since their applications had been submitted using blank OMR forms. Those who were hired in this manner were directed by the court to turn over their salary to the jurisdictional magistrate right away.

As a result, it canceled all hiring of teaching and non-teaching personnel that had been done via the WBSSC test in 2016 and gave the commission instructions to start again in order to redraw the panel.

Additionally, the CBI has been instructed to investigate the situation and report back to the court.

It should be recalled that the West Bengal School Service Commission declared in 2014 that teachers for West Bengal state-run schools will be hired via a state-level selection process.

In 2016, the hiring process itself got underway. Nonetheless, the procedure encountered several difficulties, such as multiple petitions submitted to the Calcutta High Court claiming anomalies in the hiring procedure. Numerous applicants with inferior grades were allegedly ranked higher on the merit list, according to the petitioners. There were claims that appointment letters were sent to people who were not selected on the merit list.

In a different instance, the government of West Bengal ordered the School Service Commission to engage 13,000 Group D workers for government-aided and state-run schools in 2016. The panel that was in charge of appointing these individuals has expired by 2019. It was said at the hearing that 25 individuals were chosen from this panel for recruitment. More than five hundred individuals were selected, and the state government pays their wages.

In response to a directive from former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the CBI opened an inquiry.

In its formal complaint, the CBI claimed that there were anomalies in the TET 2014 main selection procedure, stating that the wrong questions and answers were used to exclude qualified applicants.

“I have said in my verdict earlier that the Mamata government is a corrupt government,” Justice Gangopadhyay said. I appreciate the Calcutta High Court issuing this directive. Now we are going to open a can of worms.