Overview

• Howrah City Police deployed over 2,000 personnel and erected iron barricades at Bangabashi, Ramkrishnapur Ghat, Kazipara and Satragachi crossings to block the march to Nabanna.
• Eligible teachers scuffled with officers at Howrah Maidan and were stopped by 10-foot barricades that sealed access to the state secretariat.
• A 20-member delegation met Chief Secretary Manoj Pant at Nabanna but received no concrete assurances on publishing segregated tainted and untainted candidate lists or OMR sheets.
• A Calcutta High Court division bench concluded hearings on appeals over the single-bench order for fresh recruitment and the WBSSC’s new weightage criteria and has reserved its judgment.
• Protesters insist on unconditional reinstatement without fresh exams, arguing that interim work rights until December 2025 leave their long-term job security uncertain.