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Bengal recruitment scam: Calcutta HC stays service termination of 32,000 primary teachers in state-run schools

| @indiablooms | May 20, 2023, at 06:09 am

Kolkata/IBNS: A division Bench of the Calcutta High Court Friday put an interim stay on the order of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay for termination of the services of 32,000 primary teachers in different state-run schools in West Bengal on charges of irregularities in recruitment.

The moratorium will remain in force till Sept 23 or until further order. Till then, these 32,000 teachers will work as before and get paid.

A division bench of Justice Subrata Talukder and Supratim Bhattacharya on Friday granted an interim stay on Justice Gangopadhyay's first judgment. That is, they will be able to work as before until September 23.

However, they did not grant any stay on Justice Gangopadhyay's second judgment. In the interim observation, the division bench said that the recruitment process will be conducted as directed by the single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered that the jobs of those who did not have training from the 2014 TET primary teacher recruitment examination and the 2016 panel will be cancelled.

At the same time, he directed that a new panel should be appointed within the next three months.

All the teachers who have lost their jobs will also have to appear in the recruitment process through interviews and aptitude tests.


[With UNI inputs]

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