Teachers from the 2016 state level selection test panel return amid confusion over final list
Times of India | 25 April 2025
123 Kolkata: Teachers from the 2016 state-level selection test panel started returning to school as clear instructions from the school education department were sent to the schools, along with the list of 'untainted' teachers' names. However, there is still some confusion in the list, as several names, including that of Chinmoy Mandal, a prominent face of the movement, is missing from it.
The state school education department has asked school heads to send a detailed report of how many teachers from the 2016 panel are in the respective schools. A format was sent to the district inspectors, asking them to fill in the name of the teacher, designation, SSC recommendation, appointment letter, employee code, and any transfers made during this period, which must be mentioned with details. The same report was requested for the staffers as well.
Several untainted teachers who protested outside the School Service Commission office returned to school from Thursday after the district-wise list was published by the education department. Ishani Kundu, a life science teacher at a North 24 Parganas school, said, "Being a teacher, I love to take classes and interact with students, but the situation brought us to the street. I spent a wonderful moment at the school today, but unfortunately, the relief is only for a few months now. However, the condition of Group C and D staffers is very painful. I hope the entire issue is resolved soon."
School heads expressed that they are quite relieved after seeing teachers join duties. Dumdum Aurobindo High School's Headmaster, Ashim Kumar Nanda, said, "Three teachers—one for political science and two for commerce—are from the 2016 SLST panel. Finally, they joined today. We have the only political science teacher in class XI-XII. The commerce department was running with only one teacher when the number of students was quite large."
Krishnachandrapur High School in South 24 Parganas has eight teachers from the 2016 panel, and many of them joined the school. School Headmaster Chandan Maiti said, "All the eight names are there in the list, but an extra name was included, which is strange. Not only in our school but in many schools where there is such confusion in the list, we want this to be resolved immediately."
However, there is still a section that did not return to schools and is found at the protest site. Suman Biswas, a protesting teacher, said, "Major demands of uploading the mirror images of the OMR sheets are yet to be fulfilled. I am not satisfied with the list, as we heard a lot of anomalies in the list that need to be resolved soon." MSID:: 120588570 413 |