Bengal school job case: 3,512 ‘tainted’ candidates not to participate in fresh recruitment process
West Bengal’s school recruitment is back on track, but a fresh wave of caution has hit the 2016 job panel. The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has flagged 3,512 applicants as “tainted” after finding evidence that they paid money to secure the roles within the 2016 panel of 25,753 school jobs that was cancelled by a Supreme Court division bench.
The Supreme Court’s earlier order to scrap the entire 2016 panel hit teachers and non‑teaching staff alike. While the teaching staff’s written exams have finished and results are ready to be released any day, the WBSSC is now moving forward with the next phase of hiring. Written tests for fresh recruitment of non‑teaching Group‑C and Group‑D positions were announced a week ago, and the commission has been accepting applications since Monday.
On the same day, WBSSC released the list of the tainted candidates. Of the 3,512 flagged applicants, 2,591 were found to have secured positions without the required recommendation letters, and 921 had jumped the ranks. Those who are listed as tainted will not be eligible to apply in the new recruitment drive.
The Supreme Court’s April 3 order allowed only the “untainted” teachers to keep teaching until December, when a new hiring cycle would finish. Non‑teaching staff were not given the same leniency. In reaction, the West Bengal government offered unemployed Group‑C workers a Rs 25,000 monthly allowance, and Group‑D workers Rs 20,000, but the Calcutta High Court has stayed that decision.
In short, the WBSSC is clearing its recruitment funnel by filtering out the tainted 2016 candidates, while the new written exams for Group‑C and Group‑D non‑teaching staff go ahead. The court‑mandated arrangements for teachers remain in place, and the high‑court stay on the state allowances means uncertainty still looms for the current non‑teaching staff. The WBSSC will soon publish the results of the written exams and announce the next steps for the fresh batch of school job applicants.
Source: ianslive
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