Overview

• Hundreds of recent SLST candidates marched from Karunamoyee Metro to Bikash Bhavan in Kolkata on September 25 calling for a fair process.
• Demonstrators demanded scrapping the 10 extra marks offered to 'untainted' teachers who lost jobs in the annulled 2016 recruitment.
• Protesters argued the concession disadvantages new applicants and undermines equal competition in the current recruitment round.
• The group also sought immediate publication of vacancies in government-aided schools and requested a meeting with the education minister.
• The rally follows the Supreme Court's April order canceling 25,753 appointments, as sacked non-teaching staff report six months without pay.