‘We are jobless, scapegoats, back to square 1’: Educators in West Bengal as SC upholds dismissal of over 25,000 teachers
A wave of despair has washed over thousands of teachers in West Bengal following the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and staff in state-run and state-aided schools.For months, teachers have been meeting at Shahid Minar in Dharmatala every other day to discuss the case. On Thursday, they sat, watching the judgment live, as it plunged their careers into uncertainty.
The apex court upheld the Calcutta High Court’s verdict, labeling the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process as “vitiated and tainted by fraud” and cancelling the appointment of 25,753 teachers.
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Amit Ranjan Bhuiyan, a Physical Science teacher at Keorakhali Nakul Sahadeb High School in Medinipur district, is among tho...