Overview

• The WBSSC portal went live around 10:30 pm on June 16, several hours behind schedule, recording 21 registrations in the first three minutes.
• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s fresh drive offers age relaxation and experience-based weightage but requires all candidates to clear a new selection exam.
• Former teachers and non-teaching staff have refused to participate in the fresh tests and launched an indefinite hunger strike, with multiple participants hospitalised.
• Protesters marched to the State Assembly and education department to demand reinstatement without another exam and a meeting with the chief minister.
• The state has filed review petitions against the Supreme Court’s April annulment of the 2016 appointments, and the BJP staged an Assembly walk-out over the recruitment crisis.