US EditionWest Bengal Teachers Rally for Justice After Supreme Court Annulment
HOWRAH, WEST BENGAL, JUL 14 – Teachers demand reinstatement after Supreme Court annulled 25,753 appointments due to recruitment irregularities and call for publication of segregated lists of tainted and untainted candidates.
- On July 14, 2025, thousands of jobless West Bengal teachers protested near Nabanna after the Supreme Court annulled their 2016 SSC recruitment appointments due to corruption.
- The annulment followed the 2024 Calcutta High Court ruling and Supreme Court order that deemed the recruitment process vitiated and scrapped nearly 26,000 teaching and non-teaching jobs.
- Protesters demanded the state publish detailed lists distinguishing tainted and untainted teachers, release 2016 OMR sheets, and reinstate eligible teachers without fresh exams amid tight police barricades and scuffles.
- Twenty representatives from the protesters met with Chief Secretary Manoj Pant to present their demands, while participants accused the government of favoring disqualified candidates and postponing action despite the court's recognition of legitimate workers.
- The protests underscore ongoing tensions and uncertainty over reinstatement, with the court ordering a fresh recruitment process, and the state and SSC planning legal reviews amid widespread unrest.
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West Bengal Teachers Rally for Justice After Supreme Court Annulment
West Bengal Teachers Rally for Justice After Supreme Court Annulment Amid growing tensions, West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant held talks on Monday with school teachers affected by the Supreme Court's annulment of their appointments. The meeting in Kolkata's state secretariat aimed to address pressing demands from these educators, whose jobs hang in the balance.A key demand from the teachers, part of the forum 'Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhika…
Bengal: ‘Untainted’ teachers’ march to Nabanna blocked by 10‑ft barricades; 20 meet Chief Secretary
A protest, organised by Jogya Shikshak Shikshika Adhikar Mancha, pressed for the publication of eligible and ineligible candidate lists, and to demand job reinstatement without reappearing for examinations.
Agitating teachers, demanding job reinstatement, stopped from marching towards Bengal secretariat
Kolkata, Jun 14 (PTI) A large number of “eligible and untainted” school teachers, whose appointments were annulled by the Supreme Court, scuffled with the West Bengal Police on Monday afternoon when their rally was stopped at Howrah Maidan, a few kilometers ahead of their destination, the state secretariat Nabanna. The agitators, organised under the banner […]
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