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The Calcutta High Court on Friday (June 20, 2025) restrained the West Bengal Government from implementing a scheme till September 26 to provide monetary support to non-teaching staff who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment that held the selection process tainted.
The Court had on June 9, 2025 reserved judgment on the petitions, which opposed the payment of ₹25,000 each to Group C and ₹20,000 each to Group D employees who lost their jobs on the Supreme Court Order, by the State.
Retain school staff till new recruitment, Supreme Court tells West Bengal
In an interim order, Justice Amrita Sinha restrained the State Government from giving any effect or further effect to the scheme for providing monetary relief to the non-teaching staff till September 26 or until further order, whichever is earlier.
She directed the State Government to file its affidavit in opposition to the contentions of the petitioners in four weeks and reply by the petitioners within a fortnight thereafter.
The West Bengal Government had introduced a scheme to provide “limited livelihood, support and social security on humanitarian ground” on temporary basis, subject to orders of any competent court, to distressed families of non-teaching staff in Group C and D categories, who were recruited through the 2016 selection process conducted by the West Bengal School Service Commission.
Nearly, 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff of West Bengal Government-sponsored and -aided schools lost their jobs on a Supreme Court judgment, which found the 2016 selection process tainted.
Published – June 20, 2025 12:47 pm IST