Archive · 3 Jun 2025
Calcutta HC Allows Challenges to Teacher Recruitment Notification
The Calcutta High Court is hearing challenges to a new teacher recruitment process in West Bengal.
This comes after the Supreme Court cancelled thousands of previous appointments due to irregularities.
Some teachers who lost their jobs and waitlisted candidates from the prior recruitment are disputing the new guidelines.
They object to the new rules, particularly regarding the allocation of extra marks for teaching experience.
One teacher also suggested re-evaluating old answer sheets.
The Detective Department of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate issued summons to two protesting teachers for questioning.
The Calcutta High Court allowed pleas challenging the West Bengal government’s teacher recruitment notification.
The notification is for recruiting assistant teachers for classes 9 to 12.
Petitioners, including some from the 2016 recruitment, argue the guidelines violate Supreme Court directives.
They object to provisions that seem to favor teachers previously employed.
Police have summoned protesting teachers for questioning.
- Who
- Litigants and teachers
- What
- Challenging the teacher recruitment process.
- When
- The Calcutta High Court granted permission on June 3, 2025.
- Where
- Calcutta High Court, West Bengal.
- Why
- Challenging the West Bengal government’s teacher recruitment notification for assistant teachers.
Petitioners/Teachers' Stance
Government/Authorities' Stance
Recruitment Guidelines
Petitioners/Teachers' Stance
Petitioners claim the new guidelines violate Supreme Court directives, particularly concerning the allocation of additional marks for prior teaching experience.
Government/Authorities' Stance
Unspecified, the government issued the notification.
Eligibility
Petitioners/Teachers' Stance
Some teachers seek to be exempted from the new recruitment process and that those who applied originally should only compete for the vacancies declared in 2016.
Government/Authorities' Stance
Unspecified.
- Court
- Calcutta High Court
- Date
- June 3, 2025
- Subject
- Teacher Recruitment
- Previous Ruling
- Supreme Court cancelled 2016 appointments
- Main Complaint
- Recruitment notification guidelines
