Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation Common Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has written to President Droupadi Murmu over the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to terminate almost 26,000 lecturers in West Bengal, urging her intervention to avoid wasting the lecturers.
In a letter, a replica of which he shared on social media, Bhattacharya mentioned the termination was a “collective punishment” for the systemic corruption within the recruitment course of.
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“The court docket and the federal government all accepted that the overwhelming majority of lecturers now terminated had obtained their jobs by truthful means, however now the entire 26,000 lecturers who needed to undergo the contaminated recruitment course of have been stripped of their solely supply of safe and dignified dwelling,” Bhattacharya mentioned.
“It means a traumatic disruption within the lives of hundreds of households for completely no fault of their very own. It additionally means utter chaos for numerous college students and an enormous blow to the state-run public training system which has already been weakened through the years via power neglect and systematic privatisation of training, being pushed most significantly via the brand new training coverage,” he mentioned.
The CPI(ML) chief mentioned the rise of an training and examination mafia, and the proliferation of paper leaks and recruitment scams, is a matter of concern.
“No justice has been achieved in an entire sequence of scams within the final one decade starting with the Vyapam rip-off in Madhya Pradesh the place whistleblowers and witnesses have needed to pay with their lives and perpetrators received away with impunity to the newer NEET and UPSC scams,” he mentioned.
Bhattacharya mentioned termination can’t be a solution to systematic corruption and administrative failure.
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“We attraction to you to intervene urgently and discover a method out to avoid wasting the victimised lecturers, their households and dependents, and assist reform the beleaguered system of training, examination and recruitment with out victimising the victims,” he urged the President.
The Supreme Courtroom final week invalidated the appointment of 25,753 lecturers and staffers in state-run and aided colleges, terming your complete choice course of “vitiated and tainted,” upholding the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s 2024 verdict within the matter.
With the Supreme Courtroom verdict inflicting widespread discontent, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling (WBBSE) has moved the highest court docket in search of ‘modification’ in its order.
