11-Apr-2025 11:10 PM
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Kolkata, Apr 11 (Reporter) West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Friday said the government is considering all options, including of legal advice, for a review petition after the Supreme Court cancelled the appointment of some 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff recruited by the School Service Commission in 2016.
About 13 representatives of job-losing teachers took part in the two-and-a-half-hour meeting with the Education Minister, in which School Service Commission chairman Siddhartha Majumdar was present.
Basu said the SSC has agreed to publish a list of candidates of 22 lakh in two weeks' on the SSC website, and also eligible and tainted candidates as they received those from the CBI list.
The Calcutta High Court had asked the federal agency to probe the cash-for-jobs scam in the government-aided schools, and a division bench cancelled the entire 2016 recruitment of teachers and non-teachers, which the Supreme Court upheld last week.
Basu said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already assured the affected teaching and non-teaching staff of full protection, but at the same time, the government is taking every option, including legal advices before taking any final decision.
The job-losing teachers are demanding publication of the mirror image of the OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) to determine between the eligible and tainted candidates.
He urged the teachers to have patience and keep confidence in the leadership of Mamata Banerjee.
Basu said some vested interests were politicising the issue.
"We are with the affected teachers and we have no difference with their demands," Basu said and asked the eligible teachers to go to their respective schools and teach students...////...