Calcutta HC cancels jobs of 36,000 primary school teachers

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay gave this unprecedented order.

Never before have such huge cancellations been made due to recruitment corruption.

BJP leader and lawyer Tarunjyoti Tiwari filed a case in the court alleging massive corruption in the appointment of TET nine years ago.

But he said, 42 thousand 500 people were appointed in this panel.

But not everyone got the job illegally. Some have also got jobs based on merit by taking examination.

He asked the court to investigate those who got jobs illegally. Justice Gangopadhyay gave the charge of investigating this case to the CBI.

Allegedly, many have been given jobs despite getting lower marks than the litigants.

In 2016 recruitment process, there are 824 names in the panel.

The litigants got more marks than them without giving an interview. A list of 139 people is drawn up, with higher marks than the untrained who have got jobs.

More than 30000 candidates are recruited whose marks are lower than those of the applicants.

Last December, Justice Gangopadhyay directed the board to look into the list of 139 people.

It should be noted that the appointment was made in 2016 based on the 2014 TET exam. 42 thousand 500 people were recruited there. A single bench of Calcutta High Court Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay ordered the cancellation of 36,000 jobs. Those whose jobs have been ordered to be terminated are untrained teachers. Fresh recruitment has been ordered within three months.

The question arises, what will happen to those schools who were working in different schools for so long? In this case, it has been clarified from the Calcutta High Court that the recruitment should be done from the recently conducted TET examination. A large number of these teachers, who were working as para teachers, will work on para teacher salary for the time being for four months.

(With UNI inputs)