Because the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Monday cancelled the appointments of over 25,000 academics and non-teaching workers, made by way of the West Bengal College Service Fee (SSC) within the state government-sponsored and aided colleges, lots of these affected by the ruling now await a keep order on the identical from the Supreme Courtroom.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom Monday cancelled the appointments of 25,753 academics and non-teaching workers. The court docket additionally ordered them to return their salaries with curiosity, and requested the state’s College Service Fee (SSC) to provoke a contemporary appointment course of.
The decision drew combined reactions, whereby, some academics and job seekers expressed aid, many expressed their disappointment over their unsure future.
Unsure about his job safety, Illias Biswas, a instructor at Sonapur BK Excessive College, Alipurduar, mentioned, “We are able to solely hope for some non permanent aid if the state authorities appeals to the Supreme Courtroom for a keep order.”
Disenchanted that even deserving academics are shedding their jobs because of the “actions of a small share (round 10-12%)” of individuals, who allegedly obtained positions by way of corruption, Biswas instructed The Indian Express, “The scenario might have been averted if the state authorities had recognized and addressed the irregularities throughout the recruitment panel as an alternative of trying to protect undeserving candidates.”
Upset by the court docket order, he boarded a prepare from Alipurduar again to his house in Nadia district.
The Excessive Courtroom bench, presided over by Justice Debangsu Basak, dominated on Monday that the OMR sheets, used within the 2016 recruitment course of for Instructor Eligibility Check (TET), State Degree Choice Check (SLST) 2016 and Teams C, D, had been tampered with. The choice rendered all appointments made by way of that course of invalid.
Rajarhat resident Saddam Hossain, received appointed in January final yr as a instructor at Gobindapur Excessive College, in Gosaba, in South 24 Parganas district, which is almost 105 kilometres away from his home. “Sure, as per this order I’ve misplaced my job, however I’m not panicking. Perhaps it’s for good. There are folks like us who received appointments in colleges removed from our homes. Now, after the cancellation of the complete panel and if all of the candidates who received jobs by way of corrupt practices are eliminated, we would go up within the listing and will get appointed close to our areas,” mentioned Hossain.
Failing to get an appointment for a few years, SSC candidate Rustam Ali, after the HC order mentioned, “That is very unlucky. For a few years, we now have been protesting for jobs, and have been sitting on the streets, hoping for one of the best. Our intention was by no means to grab somebody’s job, particularly from those that have gotten the job primarily based on their advantage.” “By way of this order, the court docket has punished the deserving folks, it’s unsuitable if even one deserving candidate loses their job. The court docket ought to have given the decision solely towards those that had obtained the job by unsuitable means. Regardless of my identify being within the suggestions for the final two years, I haven’t received the job. So long as Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was there, there was some hope, however with him coming into into politics, the complete matter has taken a unique course,” Ali mentioned.
Welcoming the court docket order, Ganpati Mondal, who cleared the TET in 2016 however didn’t get any appointment until date mentioned, “It is going to be a studying lesson for many who received the job by unfair means. We hope that within the course of deserving candidates mustn’t lose their jobs and alternatives.”
The excessive court docket, nevertheless, made an exception within the appointment of Soma Das. On the orders of Justice Basak and Justice Mohammad Shabbar Rashidi, the job of Soma Das, who’s affected by cancer, stays intact.
Responding to the court docket’s order, Soma mentioned, “Our demand was by no means for one particular person’s job, as an alternative our struggle searched for the rights and jobs of eligible deserving candidates. Immediately’s judgment of the Excessive Courtroom has proved that there was corruption within the recruitment course of. We’re job seekers. Till all those that deserved the job get it we will’t say the struggle is over.” Das additionally mentioned, “There are numerous certified academics within the canceled panel, their jobs are additionally in query. I hope they get their jobs again.”