The Crossbill News Desk
The Left Front (LF) has accused the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government of shielding corruption in the school recruitment process by failing to publish the promised list of eligible and ineligible candidates.
In a statement issued on Tuesday (April 22), LF Chairman Biman Basu has alleged that the state administration is not only corrupting the recruitment mechanism but is also resorting to falsehoods to conceal the extent of the irregularities.
Basu expressed full solidarity with the ongoing protest by unemployed and aggrieved teachers outside the School Service Commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake, and appealed to the people of Bidhannagar to extend humanitarian support to the demonstrators.
The protest stems from the government’s failure to meet its own deadline for the publication of the list of eligible and ineligible candidates, which was promised to be released by April 21. Despite assurances from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Education Minister Bratya Basu, and the SSC, the list remains unpublished as of Tuesday evening.
“The government has employed various tricks to reinstate ineligible candidates into the system,” the LF’s statement read.
“Despite repeated directives from both the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court, the SSC has failed to release the promised lists. This inaction is a clear betrayal of the public and an insult to the deserving candidates,” the statement said.
The statement demanded exemplary punishment for those responsible for the delays and called for immediate publication of the lists.
“The government must ensure that qualified teachers retain their jobs, and the ineligible ones—hired through corrupt practices—should be dismissed and held accountable in court,” it added.
Meanwhile, hundreds of agitating unemployed teachers have continued their demonstration outside the SSC office, alleging that many names on the earlier published list of 17,206 by Bikash Bhavan include unqualified candidates who have not yet been removed from service.
“The talks have failed. The SSC is dodging accountability, and we will not relent,” said one of the protesting teachers while speaking to reporters.
“We will now move the High Court seeking the immediate termination of those found ineligible,” he added.
On April 11, Education Minister Bratya Basu had publicly committed that the list would be published by 6 PM on Monday, April 21.
As the deadline lapsed without any publication, demonstrators staged an overnight protest on Monday, surrounding the SSC chairman and vowing to continue their agitation.
The standoff shows no signs of resolution, with the protestors declaring that they will not return to schools until justice is served and transparency is restored to the recruitment process.
In a statement issued on Tuesday (April 22), LF Chairman Biman Basu has alleged that the state administration is not only corrupting the recruitment mechanism but is also resorting to falsehoods to conceal the extent of the irregularities.
Basu expressed full solidarity with the ongoing protest by unemployed and aggrieved teachers outside the School Service Commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake, and appealed to the people of Bidhannagar to extend humanitarian support to the demonstrators.
The protest stems from the government’s failure to meet its own deadline for the publication of the list of eligible and ineligible candidates, which was promised to be released by April 21. Despite assurances from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Education Minister Bratya Basu, and the SSC, the list remains unpublished as of Tuesday evening.
“The government has employed various tricks to reinstate ineligible candidates into the system,” the LF’s statement read.
“Despite repeated directives from both the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court, the SSC has failed to release the promised lists. This inaction is a clear betrayal of the public and an insult to the deserving candidates,” the statement said.
The statement demanded exemplary punishment for those responsible for the delays and called for immediate publication of the lists.
“The government must ensure that qualified teachers retain their jobs, and the ineligible ones—hired through corrupt practices—should be dismissed and held accountable in court,” it added.
Meanwhile, hundreds of agitating unemployed teachers have continued their demonstration outside the SSC office, alleging that many names on the earlier published list of 17,206 by Bikash Bhavan include unqualified candidates who have not yet been removed from service.
“The talks have failed. The SSC is dodging accountability, and we will not relent,” said one of the protesting teachers while speaking to reporters.
“We will now move the High Court seeking the immediate termination of those found ineligible,” he added.
On April 11, Education Minister Bratya Basu had publicly committed that the list would be published by 6 PM on Monday, April 21.
As the deadline lapsed without any publication, demonstrators staged an overnight protest on Monday, surrounding the SSC chairman and vowing to continue their agitation.
The standoff shows no signs of resolution, with the protestors declaring that they will not return to schools until justice is served and transparency is restored to the recruitment process.
Comments (0)
Leave a Comment