Over 5 lakh applications received so far for 35,726 teacher posts in Bengal schools: WBSSC

Over 5 lakh candidates have to this point utilized for 35,726 assistant instructor posts in State-run and -aided faculties in West Bengal, a senior official mentioned on Thursday.

A web based software portal was launched on June 16 to facilitate the method, with the unique July 14 deadline getting prolonged to July 21.

“We expect the determine to go up,” West Bengal Faculty Service Fee (WBSSC) chairman Siddhartha Majumdar mentioned.

On Could 30, WBSSC had issued a notification for recruitment of 35,726 assistant academics for Lessons 9-12 in State-aided and -run faculties in adherence to a Supreme Courtroom directive.

The highest court docket had requested the State authorities to file a compliance affidavit on the initiation of the recruitment course of on or earlier than Could 31. In April, the SC had scrapped the complete 2016 State Degree Choice Check (SLST) recruitment panel, and annulled 25,753 appointments of academics for Lessons 9-12 in addition to Group C and Group D workers.

Within the 2016 WBSSC recruitment exams, over 3 lakh candidates had utilized for instructing jobs, one other WBSSC official mentioned.

After the apex court docket’s April order, WBSSC had recognized 15,403 out of 17,206 academics as “not discovered to be particularly tainted”, permitting them to proceed receiving salaries till December. The remaining 1,804 academics have been barred from returning to varsities.

Referring to the April 3 verdict and the next order on April 17, WBSSC had earlier mentioned, “The fee and the State authorities have already utilized for evaluation of the mentioned judgment and order, and this train is strictly topic to the end result of the evaluation petition and tips of the court docket to be adopted by the fee and the federal government.”

Reacting to the contemporary software course of, Deserving Lecturers’ Rights Discussion board office-bearer Chinmoy Mondal mentioned, “We’ve got nothing to say concerning the variety of candidates. All we will say is those that had handed the 2016 exams can’t sit with their college students who’ve graduated, accomplished masters and now are aspiring to be academics.”

“After the SC order, the fee and the Training Division mustn’t have undertaken the method in such a rush, and as an alternative, might have labored on presenting a water-tight case for ‘untainted academics’ earlier than the apex court docket,” he added.