Teaching Aspirants Demand Fairness in SSC Interview Selection

Around 100 teaching job aspirants protested outside the state education department for not being included in the SSC's interview list, amidst concerns about the inclusion of candidates with alleged irregularities in the recruitment process. The SSC's 2016 panel was invalidated by the Supreme Court due to tainted selection methods.

In a demonstration that has captured state-wide attention, approximately 100 teaching job aspirants rallied outside the education department headquarters. The protestors, affected by a Supreme Court ruling that annulled thousands of teaching positions, expressed frustration over their exclusion from a recent interview list published by the School Service Commission (SSC).

The chaos stems from the Supreme Court's April decision to invalidate the SSC's 2016 panel due to faulty selection processes, affecting about 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff. The SSC's recent recruitment exam on September 14 aimed to address these vacancies by interviewing 20,500 candidates.

Led by Chinmoy Mondal, spokesperson for the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum, the protestors marched from Karunamoyee to Bikash Bhavan. Despite qualifying for the recent exam, Mondal and others found their names missing from the interview list, igniting widespread discontent over alleged unfairness in the selection criteria.

(With inputs from agencies.)