The West Bengal Faculty Service Fee (WBSSC) on Friday stated it will abide by the Supreme Court docket directive and shortly provoke the method of conducting recent exams for all educating and non-teaching candidates, who took half within the now-invalidated 2016 job recruitment train.
Talking to reporters a day after the apex courtroom annulled the appointments of 25,752 academics and staffers in state-run and state-aided colleges, WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumdar stated the fee, in view of the highest courtroom order, would search authorized recommendation on the eligibility of candidates who can take the recent assessments.
“About 26 lakh candidates had utilized for the exams in 2016 and round 22 lakh appeared for the assessments. Of them, some 1.41 lakh candidates have been aspirants for posts of academics in lessons 9-10 and one other about 1.5 lakh candidates sat for academics’ recruitment in lessons 11-12.
“The remainder have been candidates for non-teaching posts. Though the Supreme Court docket has directed us to provoke the choice course of for filling up the vacancies, we’ll want authorized clarification on whether or not new candidates are additionally eligible to participate within the recent exams,” Majumdar stated.
The chairman, nevertheless, confirmed that given the big quantity of candidates concerned, the completion of the choice course of inside three months was unlikely.
“There isn’t a point out of a three-month deadline within the courtroom order. It is a lengthy course of and we’re unlikely to complete it inside three months,” Majumdar stated.
“We’ll provoke the method of beginning the recent examination of twenty-two lakh candidates as quickly as doable. We will even ship our suggestions to the varsity schooling division, however can’t share any additional particulars at this stage,” he stated.
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Whereas 12,905 working academics in lessons 9 and 10 in state colleges misplaced their jobs within the wake of the Supreme Court docket verdict, the variety of job losers in lessons 11 and 12 stood at 5,712. The remaining among the many practically 26,000 affected workers are non-teaching employees in Teams C and D class.
In its judgment, the apex courtroom pulled up the WBSSC, saying it “deliberately” lined up the lapses and illegalities within the appointment of the academics and staffers, and upheld the Calcutta Excessive Court docket’s findings on illegalities within the choice course of on 17 counts.
Requested in regards to the fee’s alleged failure to separate the contaminated from the deserving candidates earlier than the Supreme Court docket that led to the cancellation of appointments en masse, Majumdar stated, “We did submit these figures within the type of sworn affidavits. It’s a special matter, although, that we have been unable to fulfill the courtroom with our figures.”
To a query about finishing inside three months the recruitment means of these educating and non-teaching college workers who had left their earlier office and sat for the 2016 recruitment exams for higher postings as directed by the courtroom, he stated,
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“We’ll facilitate the method (of them for becoming a member of their earlier office) on the earliest as per the directive.” “However we don’t have the figures in regards to the whole variety of such candidates. They will strategy us (fee) and we’ll compile. We’ll full the method after verifying info and figures and their earlier data. It’s a huge train,” he added.
Majumdar stated the fee has obtained the letter from the state for a “immediate recruitment course of” and can discover all choices together with creating extra vacant posts.
“However we will chart the following plan of action and inform you (media) about our transfer by subsequent week,” he added.
