Kolkata
After holding protests in Kolkata for months, the ‘untainted’ teachers and non-teaching staff whose jobs were axed after the April 3 Supreme Court order headed to Delhi to make their grievances heard, but they were left in the lurch in both places. This came after the last date to fill up the form for the fresh recruitment process by West Bengal School Service Commission came to an end on July 21.
A group of representatives went to Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan and staged protests between July 23-25, to make their voices heard in the national capital. 150 members of the ‘untainted’ teachers and 15 ‘untainted’ non-teaching staff participated in the protests. They met with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Sarad Pawar, they also filed deputations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday (July 24, 2025).
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“We were not part of the corruption, we rightfully got jobs in 2016, why do we have to do the process again? Many of the teachers also could not apply due to the new exam rules,” Shubhojit Das of ‘Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhikar Mancha’ (Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum) said. Mr Das also said that they have filed over 190 review petitions at the Supreme Court to reconsider their April 3 order, which cancelled the jobs of all candidates in the 2016 panel and restore the jobs of the ‘untainted’ candidates with dignity.
