‘How will I pay for my mother’s cancer treatment?’: On Bengali New Year, a pall of gloom on teachers who lost their jobs
While sweets are distributed and new clothes are worn on Bengali New Year, the occasion looks different for teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal who recently lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court order.
Surojit Pramanik, a non-teaching staff member at a school in Krishnanagar told The Indian Express, “I had taken a loan and bought a flat. We were supposed to have the house warming ceremony today but that will not happen any longer. I don’t even know if I will be able to pay back the loan I have taken.”
The Supreme Court had annulled the appointments of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff recruited through the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) examinations, terming the entire selection process “vitiated and tainted”.
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