Overview

• The Supreme Court scrapped nearly 26,000 appointments from the 2016 WBSSC recruitment over irregularities and allowed 15,403 teachers deemed ‘untainted’ to work until December if they pass fresh tests
• The WBSSC published a notification on May 30 and set the online application period from June 16 to July 14 for a complete rerun of the hiring process
• Ten members of the Jogyo Shikshak-Shikshika Adhikar Mancha began a fast-unto-death near the WBSSC office on June 13 to press for halting the recruitment drive
• Delegations of sacked teachers met Chairperson Siddhartha Majumdar at Bikash Bhavan and later held talks with Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee but secured no postponement
• Both the state government and the WBSSC have active review petitions in the Supreme Court seeking reconsideration of the termination order