SSC aspirants’ teaching-experience marks: HC to hear petitioners, respondents on Mon
Times of India | 29 November 2025
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday addressed petitions challenging the constitutionality of the West Bengal Central Service Commission, Rules, 2025, which have allotted 10 marks for prior teaching experience of candidates for recruitment to the posts of assistant teachers. This provision was absent in the 2016 and 2019 rules. Justice Sinha will hear petitioners, if any, and then hear out the respondents on Monday.
Petitioners argued the provision denied a "level playing field", and requested that the score of candidates out of the said 10 marks be included at the final stage of the preparation of the recruitment list, and not ahead of the interview of the 2nd SLST recruitment process, 2025.
Senior counsel for the petitioners Bikash Bhattacharya drew the attention of Justice Amrita Sinha to the latest order of the SC in this regard. He submitted the apex court annulled the entire recruitment process of the 1st SLST on the grounds that it was "vitiated and tainted". Bhattacharya pointed out that SC instead ordered a 2nd SLST examination and recruitment of teachers by Dec 31, 2025.
The parameter of prior teaching experience was incorporated in the rules only a day before the publication of the advertisement on May 29, 2025.