‘What will happen to us now?’ ask untainted candidates who could not make it to WBSSC interview list

According to a senior WBSSC official, the interview schedule will be announced in due course, and the document verification for the shortlisted candidates will begin, most likely on November 18. The candidates’ list is available on the WBSSC website.

However, fresh controversy erupted after the list was published. Several untainted teachers who had lost their jobs after the Supreme Court cancelled the 2016 SSC panel could not make it to the interview list this time.

Although the results for assistant teacher posts for Class 9 and Class 10 are still pending, these candidates are worried about missing out on that list, too.

The total number of vacancies in the higher secondary section is 12,454. Out of the 20,000-odd candidates who have been called for the interview round, 9,500 are fresh candidates.

Names of some of the prominent faces among the protesting untainted candidates are missing from the published list. Chinmoy Mondol, whose name does not feature in the interview list, said, “I have appeared for the Class 9-10 examination also, now that is my only hope. But the question is, what will happen to those whose names do not appear in any of the lists? We have been working for five to six years… we lost our jobs due to the state government, what was our fault?”

Suman Biswas, another prominent face of the SSC protest, could not find his name in the interview list. “There are a lot of fresh candidates whose names are there… What will happen to us now?”

Meanwhile, Mehaboob Mondol, another untainted candidate who had lost his job, has made it to the interview round. Speaking to the media, he said, “My name is there, but many of my colleagues’ names are not there. What about them, what about their future?”

The WBSSC had declared the results for the State Level Selection Test (SLST) for assistant teacher posts for classes 11 and 12 on November 7.

After close to nine years, WBSSC conducted the tests for assistant teacher posts.

As per the Commission, 23,312 candidates will be recruited for assistant teacher (Classes 9-10) posts and 12,514 for the higher secondary section.

In April, the Supreme Court ordered the termination of jobs of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in government-aided schools at the secondary and higher secondary levels in West Bengal.
Later, the Supreme Court, after an appeal from the state secondary education board, stated that the untainted teachers will receive salaries till December.