After SC sacked 24,000 school staffers, West Bengal opens job window | India News

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee rolled out on Tuesday the roadmap for filling up the 24,203 school positions left empty after the Calcutta HC’s and Supreme Court’s SSC rulings and in addition introduced the creation of 20,000 further jobs in colleges.The course of will begin on May 30 (a day earlier than SC’s May 31 deadline) with a recruitment commercial and can finish with counselling (to start out Nov 20). This is the Mamata Banerjee administration’s greatest school recruitment drive until date.“Besides the 24,203 vacant posts, additional vacancies have been created to recruit 11,517 teachers for Classes IX and X, 6,912 vacant posts have been created for teachers for Classes XI and XII, and 1,571 vacancies have been created for Group C and Group D posts. The total vacancies are 44,203,” Banerjee stated.“There are many cases where age limit will be an issue,” CM stated, factoring within the nine-year lag for the 2016 School Service Commission panel. “Age relaxation will be offered so that everyone can appear for the test. We will also give an advantage to those with work experience,” CM stated, which can work to the benefit of academics who misplaced their jobs following courtroom rulings.Banerjee’s announcement additionally saved in thoughts these requested by SC to return their salaries and face fast job loss: “A separate notification will made in the first week of June for those Group C and Group D staffers who have lost jobs or been asked to return money so that they can opt to join three-four other departments. There will be a separate notification for this.”The state didn’t wish to fall foul of SC’s May 31 deadline regardless of having filed a evaluation petition towards the order, Banerjee emphasised. “We did not act till now because we thought the review petition might lead to a favourable outcome. But we need to meet the May 31 deadline. Both processes (the new recruitment drive and the challenge to the SC order) will continue. Later, if the review petition yields results, we will accept that. Both options are open. We are doing this to ensure that there is no non-compliance with SC directives,” Banerjee defined. Banerjee, instantly interesting to the protesting SSC academics, stated: “Take the exam. Continue going to your school. You will receive your salary till the year-end. Protect your right to return with dignity. Opportunities will come. Some 26,000 teachers will have problems if I do not comply with the court’s order. You have to wait for the review. Saying you will not take the exam will not work; you will not have a job. This is not our directive, it is SC’s order.” “We will register your review petition again after SC’s summer break. We have kept time for this. Our lawyers will fight to the best of their ability. The verdict is not in my hands; it is in the court’s hand,” she added.“I will try my best. Why are you afraid? Those who are over 40 will be given an age-limit exemption. We were here, we are here, and we will remain here,” the CM stated.Banerjee additionally took a jab on the opposition. “We did not take your jobs. Those who took away your jobs are now trying to be your friends. Some 10,000 teachers’ jobswere cancelled in Tripura and they did not get their jobs back despite promises. Some 69,000 teachers lost their jobs in UP. Panels have been cancelled in other states as well. So many have died in the Vyapam scam and there has been no justice,” she reminded the protesting academics.