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Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu holds meeting with job-losing teachers

Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu holds meeting with job-losing teachers

Kolkata, Apr 11 (UNI) West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Friday said the government is considering all options, including of legal advice, for a review petition after the Supreme Court cancelled the appointment of some 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff recruited by the School Service Commission in 2016.
About 13 representatives of job-losing teachers took part in the two-and-a-half-hour meeting with the Education Minister, in which School Service Commission chairman Siddhartha Majumdar was present.
Basu said the SSC has agreed to publish a list of candidates of 22 lakh in two weeks' on the SSC website, and also eligible and tainted candidates as they received those from the CBI list.

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