Sacked Teachers, SSC Meet Over New Proposal

PTI,  APRIL 22, 2025 :  A meeting between representatives of the teachers who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order and officials of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) was underway on Tuesday evening over a new proposal by the SSC to bring out a fresh list of educators "not specifically tainted" in the 2016 recruitment test.

If the list is approved by the protesting teachers, the SSC and the state government will be able to include it in the review petition to be filed before the Supreme Court, an official said.

The two sides also held a meeting on Monday, but no breakthrough was achieved.

Around 2,000 agitating teachers decided to launch an indefinite sit-in outside the SSC headquarters on Monday night after the Commission failed to release, by the 6 PM deadline, the list of 2016 SSC qualifiers whose jobs were annulled by the apex court.

Teachers rendered jobless by the Supreme Court verdict and now on an indefinite sit-in before the West Bengal School Service Commission headquarters on Tuesday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of making "false promises of job security."

They also alleged that the SSC has lost all credibility after its failure to publish the list of untainted candidates and, by extension, identify the deserving teachers by the set deadline.