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SC bars tainted candidates as Mamata weighs alternative state jobs
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by hundreds of ‘tainted’ candidates seeking to sit for West Bengal’s fresh teacher recruitment examination. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said such candidates, barred from…
The Story in Brief
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by hundreds of ‘tainted’ candidates seeking to sit for West Bengal’s fresh teacher recruitment examination. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said such candidates, barred from teaching by court order, could be considered for Group C or D roles. She also said non-teaching staff affected by the court’s April 3 order would be considered in a fresh hiring process after teacher recruitment.
The West Bengal School Service Commission has identified 1,806 ‘tainted’ candidates, with about 1,400 admit cards cancelled. The Supreme Court had annulled nearly 26,000 teaching and non-teaching appointments from the 2016 process. Fresh examinations are scheduled for September 7 and 14.
The Indian Opinion
The claim that every dismissed employee was corrupt is as careless as suggesting all affected staff deserve automatic reinstatement. The court found the recruitment process deeply flawed, while legitimate candidates also lost jobs because the state failed to separate them from tainted appointments. Any alternative post must follow open eligibility rules, not political discretion. Will the new process publish candidate-wise findings and keep the 2016 tainted list excluded?
Source: thehindu.com
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