West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that a notification for the fresh recruitment of teachers will be issued by 31 May, assuring that those who lost their jobs will receive age relaxation.
“Notification for fresh recruitment of teachers will be issued by May 31, those who lost jobs will get age relaxation”, the Bengal CM said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court had invalidated the appointments of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff of state-aided schools, deeming the recruitment process “vitiated and tainted.”
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee also assured that the teachers who lost their jobs will receive benefit of experience in fresh recruitment process.
“While the West Bengal government will continue its legal battle to protect existing teachers’ positions, it will simultaneously commence the process of recruiting new educators to address staffing needs”, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.
CM Mamata Banerjee also stated, “Want teachers to get back their jobs, have filed review petition in Supreme Court”.
Protesting Teachers Vow ‘Not to Sit for Fresh Tests’
Vowing not to sit for fresh recruitment tests, the protesting teachers — terminated on April 3 following a Supreme Court order invalidating the appointments of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff of state-aided schools — on Monday announced plans to take their agitation beyond West Bengal to the national capital.
“In the coming days, apart from continuing our protests here in the city, we wish to let the nation know about the injustice meted out to thousands of eligible teachers who had qualified in the 2016 SSC exams by their own merit and qualification,” said Brindaban Ghosh, a member of the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum.
“Why should untainted teachers continue to be penalised for the illegalities committed by a section of candidates? Why can’t the available mirror OMR images be used to differentiate between the ‘tainted’ and ‘untainted’?”