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September 1, 2025, 04:56 PM - 2 min read
Speaking in the Assembly, Adhikari said that if the government brought a bill to recognise SSC qualified candidates, the opposition would unanimously support it.
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August 30, 2025, 10:19 PM - 3 min read
The official said the tainted candidates had either tampered with OMR sheets or jumped ranks with the help of influential people.
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May 17, 2025, 12:14 PM - 4 min read
Teachers in Kolkata are staging a prolonged protest against the Mamata Banerjee government, demanding job security after the Supreme Court’s ruling found the SSC recruitment process tainted, leading to the termination of thousands of teachers. The standoff continues outside Bikash Bhawan.
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May 16, 2025, 12:56 PM - 3 min read
Several teachers were injured as police resorted to lathi charge during a protest by SSC teachers in Kolkata on Thursday. The demonstration followed the Supreme Court’s decision to terminate over 26,000 teaching jobs in connection with a tainted recruitment process.
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April 22, 2025, 05:28 PM - 3 min read
Speaking at a public meeting in Midnapore on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that had she been in Kolkata, she could have resolved the ongoing teachers’ agitation outside the School Service Commission (SSC) office "within a second."
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April 19, 2025, 10:04 AM - 3 min read
A group of jobless teachers, rendered unemployed by the WBSSC recruitment scam, invited Sourav Ganguly to join their protest march to Nabanna. Police stopped them, taking them to a station. Ganguly declined, stating, “Please don’t involve me in politics,” amid the ongoing controversy.
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April 17, 2025, 02:43 PM - 4 min read
In a partial relief to West Bengal, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed untainted teachers dismissed in the 2016 WBSSC recruitment scam to continue in service until fresh recruitment is completed. However, it denied similar relief to Group C and D employees and set a strict recruitment deadline.
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April 13, 2025, 02:17 PM - 3 min read
After four days of fasting and protest outside the SSC office in Salt Lake, jobless teachers from the 2016 batch have ended their hunger strike. Though the fast has ended, protestors vowed to continue fighting for justice through democratic means until recruitment processes become transparent.
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April 10, 2025, 03:50 PM - 7 min read
While the ruling may appear to be a necessary step toward cleansing systemic corruption, the indiscriminate nature of its execution has unleashed unprecedented suffering. The innocent have been bracketed with the guilty, honest educators penalised alongside those who manipulated the process.
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April 7, 2025, 03:13 PM - 5 min read
Teachers dismissed after the 2016 SSC scam verdict criticised the West Bengal government after meeting CM Mamata Banerjee, accusing it of symbolic gestures. While Banerjee alleged a conspiracy, the teachers demanded justice, calling the government’s offer of re-employment a “lollipop”.
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April 7, 2025, 12:29 PM - 4 min read
Chaos broke out at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday as jobless teachers clashed with police over alleged black marketing of entry passes for a meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee, organised amid the ongoing SSC recruitment crisis.
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April 5, 2025, 09:35 AM - 4 min read
A day after the Supreme Court quashed over 25,000 school appointments in Bengal, former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay suggested the formation of a state-appointed panel to distinguish deserving candidates from those who benefited through fraudulent means.
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