Overview

• The Supreme Court invalidated the 2016 appointments of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in state-aided schools on April 3 after ruling the recruitment process was tainted.
• The West Bengal government and WBSSC have filed review petitions challenging the verdict, guaranteeing that teachers deemed untainted will continue receiving salaries until a fresh recruitment process ends by December 31, 2025.
• A six-member delegation of protesting teachers met education department officials on May 26 but left without commitments to reinstatement without fresh examinations, citing the absence of Education Minister Bratya Basu.
• The apex court has ordered the state to issue a fresh recruitment notification by May 31, a test that protesting teachers have vowed to boycott.
• The Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum plans to take its agitation to New Delhi to demand publication of a segregated list of untainted candidates and direct talks with state leadership.