Archive · 11 Jun 2025
High Court Allows Axed Teacher to Participate in Counseling
A teacher who lost their job is now allowed to try for a new one at a lower grade level.
The court said the school service commission, which hires teachers, must let this teacher join the June 11 interview.
This is because a court said the first hiring process was unfair.
The school service is worried this could mess up the teacher selection process.
Other teachers want to do the same thing.
The court will decide if this teacher can keep their new job later, based on how they do in the interview.
The High Court ordered the school service commission to allow a teacher, previously excluded, to participate in the June 11 counselling.
The teacher had not participated in previous counselling due to uncertainty over job terminations.
The court order stemmed from a previous Supreme Court ruling on a 'vitiated' recruitment process.
The SSC expressed concerns that allowing the teacher to participate could disrupt the counselling process.
The order is related to a larger case where other candidates have similar requests to join the counselling.
- Who
- A higher secondary schoolteacher and the West Bengal Central School Service
- What
- High Court issued an interim order allowing a teacher to participate in counseling.
- When
- June 11
- Where
- West Bengal
- Why
- Due to a Supreme Court ruling on a ‘vitiated’ recruitment process and the teacher's previous exclusion from counseling.
Teacher Applicants
School Service Commission
Participation in Counselling
Teacher Applicants
The teacher and potentially others want to participate to secure a teaching position at the upper primary level, following job loss at the secondary level.
School Service Commission
The SSC argued that allowing the teacher to participate would disrupt the existing process and potentially impact candidates already chosen.
- Key Agency Involved
- West Bengal Central School Service
- Counselling Date
- June 11
- Approximate Number of Teacher Positions
- 14,000-odd
- TET Exam Year
- 2016
- Counselling Level
- Upper Primary Level (Classes VI to VIII)
- Date of Supreme Court Order on Recruitment Process
- April 3, 2016