Bengal school jobs scam: Sacking 17,206 teachers to hit schools hard, Board asks SC to let ‘untainted’ ones to stay
Stating that the teacher’s strength in West Bengal government schools is already “strained’, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Monday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking modification of its April 3 order annulling appointments of over 25,000 school staff.
In its plea, the state Board urged the top court to allow teachers “not found to be tainted” to continue their services until the end of the academic year or until the process of fresh appointments is concluded, whichever is earlier.
While upholding a Calcutta High Court order on an alleged school jobs scam case being probed by the CBI, the Supreme Court termed the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process as “vitiated and tainted by fraud”.
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