West Bengal Teachers Scam – Bhartiyanews24x7

A group of teachers and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling which annulled the appointments of over 25,000 West Bengal school staff clashed with the police outside the office of the district inspector of schools in the Kasba area of Kolkata Wednesday.The police resorted to a lathi charge to disperse the protesters and allegedly kicked a few of them. The police issued a statement that four male and two female police personnel sustained injuries in an “unprovoked attack” by the protesters. Protesters also held rallies and sat on dharnas outside DI offices in Purba Bardhaman, Malda, Purulia, and Murshidabad. Chaos also broke out at Acharya Sadan, the head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), as some teaching and non-teaching staff prote...

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. Story continues below this ad Amit Ranjan Bhuiyan, a Physical Science teacher at Keorakhali Nakul Sahadeb High School in Medinipur district, is among tho...

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West Bengal school teachers protesting job loss clash with police in Kolkata, face lathi charge

‘We are jobless, scapegoats, back to square 1’: Educators in West Bengal as SC upholds dismissal of over 25,000 teachers