Bengal school jobs cancellation: WBSSC's major lapses that made segregation between 'genuine' and 'ineligible' impossible

With the Supreme Court on Thursday upholding the Calcutta High Court last year order cancelling the entire panel of appointments in teaching and non-teaching categories made by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) in 2016, prolonged legal proceedings in the matter in both courts have pinpointed several lapses on part of the WBSSC that made the process of segregation between "genuine" and "ineligible" candidates virtually impossible.

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The apex court's division bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday also accepted the observation by the Calcutta High Court's division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi in April last year that it was impossible to segregate the genuine candidates from those ineligible ones getting jobs paying money.

As was evident during the proceedings in the two courts, the major lapse was in relation to the preservation of the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in written examination and retaining their scanned copies.