Kolkata:
The West Bengal School Service Worth on Thursday claimed that it had provided the Calcutta Extreme Court docket docket lists of round 5,300 appointees from the 2016 college recruitment panel whose appointments personal been suspect, and talked about that the ultimate 19,000-routine lecturers personal been “inclined to be eligible”.
The fee additionally stated it believed that the 19,000 lecturers, whose appointments additionally stand cancelled attributable to a excessive courtroom docket judgment, would possibly perchance personal met the indispensable qualification standards laid down by the appointing authorities.
Chatting with reporters, enlighten SSC Chairman Siddhartha Majumdar stated, “We submitted earlier than the courtroom docket lists of candidates the place anomalies in recruitment personal been got here throughout. These lists personal been in keeping with two express irregularities in recruitment, significantly Optical Worth Recognition (OMR) sheet manipulation and unhealthy jumps. The full sequence of such candidates for Groups C and D and lecturers for courses 9-10 and 11-12 grew to become round 5,300.” The say got here inside the aftermath of a judgment of a excessive courtroom docket particular bench on Monday, scrapping all 25,753 appointments made all through the recruitment strategy of Inform Stage Choice Check out-2016 (SLST) in West Bengal government-subsidized and aided schools.
The courtroom docket additionally directed {that a} part of these recruits will wish to return salaries drawn by them together with 12 per cent every year pastime.
In its judgment, the courtroom docket talked about that it chosen to destroy the overall appointment panel because it grew to become very now not inclined to separate the grain from the chaff ensuing from of non-cooperation from the SSC and the Bengal authorities in offering the names of those illegally recruited.
Given the excessive courtroom docket assert, the fee will rapidly provoke a model new recruitment course of wherein new candidates and folks that misplaced college jobs on fable of the courtroom docket judgment can discover, Majumdar stated.
“Our authorized professionals personal identified some areas of bewilderment inside the HC judgment on which we are able to look guidance from the Supreme Court docket docket. The full affidavits submitted to the HC inside the earlier by SSC personal been positioned earlier than the apex courtroom docket,” he stated.
There personal been 4 affidavits filed earlier than the courtroom docket since December closing 12 months the place the fee provided the names and roll numbers of the suspected recruits, Majumdar stated, including that the lists personal been additionally shared with the CBI.
It deserves current that the courtroom docket, in its judgment, had listed 17 kinds of irregularities which personal been resorted to in perpetrating the recruitment rip-off.
Citing that the SSC has to this stage got here throughout that over 19,000 candidates from the 2016-SLST check personal been eligible and had no irregularities in appointment, Majumdar stated, “We personal filed a overview petition earlier than the Supreme Court docket docket powerful the Calcutta Extreme Court docket docket judgment.” The SSC chairman maintained that the claims made by improbable quarters that the fee did now not expose the CBI and the courtroom docket about its findings personal been fake.
“The courtroom docket had positioned 4 queries earlier than us and we answered each physique of them. The CBI additionally agreed to many submissions made by us inside the courtroom docket and we do not deem so many candidates personal been fraudulently recruited. The corporate is at liberty to design its comprise prognosis and observations, nonetheless now not all candidates might be equally inefficient,” he stated.
Majumdar additionally stated earlier than he assumed workplace, the SSC had performed a counselling of the 2016 batch on August 3, 2020, no matter the expiry of the panel, which “should tranquil now not personal been carried out on technical grounds”.
“Then once more, the courtroom docket did now not object to that as a result of it grew to become carried out strictly on profit,” he added.
Within the interim, enlighten training minister Bratya Basu stated the enlighten authorities will protect OMR sheets for 10 years.
Chatting with reporters at Trinamool Bhavan, Basu emphasised the enlighten’s resolution to help the OMR sheets of each and each candidate for a decade, drawing from the courses of the SSC recruitment controversy.
He indicated that various the 26,000 SSC job recipients in 2017-18 personal been certainly eligible, citing SSC’s acknowledgement that 92 per cent of them personal been deemed licensed.
Basu criticised the parable propagated by the BJP and improbable quarters, alleging commonplace irregularities in SSC recruitment no matter the enlighten authorities’s intervention and punitive measures in opposition to wrongdoers.
He denounced this fantasy as detrimental to the pursuits of the folks of Bengal and reverse to the ethos of “Maa Mati Manush” (Mother, Land, Other people).
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