Teacher Recruitment Scam: HC Cancels Appointments In WB Govt Schools; 26K Jobs Lost
by News18
News18— The Calcutta High Court cancelled on Monday all appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff made through the 2016 state-level test in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided secondary and higher secondary schools. The order meant the cancellation of 25,753 jobs. Calling the appointments as “null and void”, the division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi ruled that a fresh recruitment process must be conducted. The court also said individuals who were appointed...
Scroll.in—HC declares 2016 West Bengal teachers’ recruitment panel invalid, cancels over 24,000 appointments. This came after a re-evaluation of the answer sheets for the State Level Selection Test for recruitment in the state government-sponsored and aided schools.
Daily Mail—Michigan school cancels lesson to teach first-graders about pronouns like 'ze' and 'tree' after threats made teachers too afraid to go to school. Schavey Road Elementary School in DeWitt, a town outside Lansing, Michigan, planned the mini-lesson for first-graders in the new few weeks but received an avalanche of threats that terrified its staff.
Scroll.in—Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election. The High Court implicated the state government for involvement in the recruitment scam that has dominated the state’s politics over the last few years.