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Candidates who cleared the 2022 Primary TET blocked the principle gate of the Assembly demanding recruitment in Kolkata September 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: The Hindu
The tons of of protestors stated that they had cleared the West Bengal Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) examination in 2022, however are but to get positioned in authorities college jobs.
Violent clashes erupted between the job aspirants and the native police after the protestors refused to let the Trinamool Congress leaders depart with out solutions. TMC’s senior chief and MP from Dum Dum constituency Sougata Ray, and MLA Nirmal Ghosh from Panihati constituency had been stopped close to Barasat’s Rabindra Bhawan (public corridor) on Jessore Road, the place they had been imagined to attend an occasion of the West Bengal Education Department. The occasion was imagined to be attended by Education Minister Bratya Basu. They had been stranded on the highway for over an hour as protestors demanded jobs and justice.
Police baton-charged many to deliver the state of affairs beneath management and detained lots of the protestors in the course of the clashes. An enormous contingent of the Rapid Action Force was additionally current on website.
Many aspirants additionally laid down on the highway in an try and cease the MP and MLA from coming into the occasion premises.
Job aspirants stated that lots of them had been injured within the clashes and manhandled. “We don’t really feel like residing anymore beneath such atrocities and unfair remedy,” an individual with incapacity who sustained bodily accidents in the course of the clashes advised a neighborhood media channel whereas sitting on the footpath close to the protest website and wiping his tears.
“We got here right here for a respectable trigger and ask for what’s rightly ours. But they’re beating us up and arresting us,” one other protestor accused.
Protestors additionally claimed that there are at the very least 50,000 vacant posts in major and higher major college trainer roles and they need to be recruited in these posts.
However, on September 11 Mr. Basu had stated there aren’t any particular figures for the variety of vacant positions in colleges obtainable in their division for the time being. “The districts should ship this knowledge. Once the studies are available, we’ll publish a notification quickly,” Mr. Basu stated.
The 2022 TET aspirants have performed a number of protests over the previous few years. Another violent protest erupted outdoors the West Bengal Assembly on September 11, 2025.
In a associated improvement, outcomes for the 2023 TET exams are set to be revealed on Wednesday (September 24, 2025). Over 2 lakh 80 thousand candidates had appeared this examination and have waited for over 1.5 years to get the outcomes.
Meanwhile, the designated ED court docket in Kolkata has stated that the ED officers can not take Minister of Correctional Administration Chandranath Sinha into custody for questioning within the college recruitment rip-off case. The court docket upheld his bail but in addition stated that he has to seem earlier than the ED officers on September 25, 26 for questioning. Mr Sinha surrendered earlier than the designated ED court docket on September 6 and was granted anticipatory bail.
After former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, Mr. Sinha was the second minister in opposition to whom the ED filed a chargesheet within the 2016 college recruitment rip-off. Mr Chatterjee was arrested in 2022 and nonetheless stays in judicial custody.
An investigation was launched in opposition to Mr Sinha beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after the ED officers recovered ₹42 lakh money from his residence in Bolpur in March, 2024.
On April 3, the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court order that cancelled the appointment of all candidates within the 2016 panel as a result of irregularities within the hiring course of. They additionally requested the WBSSC to conduct a recent recruitment course of inside December 31.
Published – September 25, 2025 09:50 am IST
