Kolkata: Fresh petition has been filed at vacation bench of Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee of Calcutta High Court over the fresh notification given by SSC over recruitment of 35, 726 teachers.
One of the sacked teachers Lubana Parveen, the petitioner stated that the fresh notification had violated the directives issued by the Supreme Court. The matter is listed to be heard on June 5.
Senior CPI (M) leader and lawyer Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said that the challenge against the notification was bound to happen.
“In order to hide one corruption, the state government wants to do another corruption in the name of fresh recruitment. This state government can’t come out of corruption,” added Bhattacharya.
Lawyer Firdous Shamim said that the directives issued by the apex court doesn’t give any provision ‘to allot 10 marks for experience’.
Shamim also mentioned that the recruitment process ‘should adhere to the rules from 2016’.
Notably, under the 2016 rules, academic qualifications carried 35 marks, the written test was worth 55 marks, and interviews were allotted 10 marks.
The SSC on May 30 had issued the fresh notification for recruitment. According to the notification published on the WBSSC website, 23,312 teachers are to be recruited for classes 9-10 and 12,514 for classes 11-12 in secondary and higher secondary schools, respectively.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh without taking any names mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to ‘save’ the jobs of the sacked teachers.
“On one hand Mamata Banerjee in keeping with the order of the Supreme Court had floated fresh notification for recruitment and on the other hand a review petition was also filed in the Supreme Court. Those who are instrumental in taking away the jobs of the teachers are once again playing nasty games. It should be stopped,” added Ghosh.
