A Taint They Must Carry

The Untainted Teachers Hit by the Apex Court Judgement in the WBSSC Case Have Been Deprived of Their Right to Life, Says Alok Ray

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In its 41-page judgment dated 3 April, the Hon'ble Supreme Court scrapped the selection of 25, 752 teachers and non-teaching staff by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) for the recruitment of non-teaching staff in Groups C and D, and Assistant Teachers for Classes XI and X, as well as Classes XI and XII in State funded Schools.

In 2016, WBSSC, the statutory selection body, had issued a notification for regional and state level selection tests and commenced the selection process for (i) 12,905 Assistant Teachers for Classes IX & X; (ii) 5,712 Assistant Teachers for Classes XI & XII ; (iii) 2, 067 non-teaching staff under Group C; and (iv) 3,956 non-teaching staff under Group D.

M/s Nysa Communications Pvt.Ltd. was entrusted with the task of scanning and assessing the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets. A common list of successful candidates with the marks was not uploaded.

However, candidates were allowed to log in to the WBSSC website to check if they had been called for a personality test or interview. Personality tests/ interviews were conducted and final status rank lists were published on the website on different dates in November and December 2017 and August 2018. The list did not display the marks obtained but it included both the candidates who were in the panel and those on the waiting list.