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SSC Seeks Fresh OBC Details After Reservation Cut
West Bengal’s School Service Commission is asking some teacher-job candidates to update their OBC information.
They must provide their sub-category, certificate number, and issuing authority.
The government changed the OBC reservation from 17% to 7% for 66 classes.
This means the commission must recalculate parts of the teacher recruitment lists.
Higher secondary candidates have one deadline, and secondary candidates have another.
Candidates who do not update their information will be counted as general-category applicants.
The commission says this work will take extra time.
It has asked the Supreme Court for eight more months to finish the recruitment process.
The School Service Commission has asked teaching candidates to update their OBC sub-categories during the recruitment process.
Candidates who miss the deadline will have their applications treated under the unreserved category.
Higher secondary candidates must make changes by August 25, while secondary candidates have until August 31.
The revised policy reduces OBC reservation from 17% to 7% for 66 classes.
The commission has sought an additional eight months from the Supreme Court to complete recruitment for 35,654 vacancies.
- Who
- The School Service Commission, teaching-job candidates, the West Bengal government, and the Supreme Court.
- What
- The commission is collecting updated OBC sub-category information and recasting recruitment panels after a reservation policy change.
- Where
- Government-aided schools in West Bengal.
- When
- Higher secondary candidates must update details by August 25; secondary candidates must do so between August 25 and August 31. The commission has requested eight additional months beyond the August 31 completion schedule.
- Why
- The state government reduced OBC reservation from 17% to 7% for 66 classes, requiring the commission to revise recruitment panels.
Earlier 17% Framework
Revised 7% Framework
OBC reservation
Earlier 17% Framework
The previous Trinamool Congress government notified 17% OBC reservation for 140 backward classes, and applicants were told during registration that the quota would be 17%.
Revised 7% Framework
On May 18, 2026, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced that 7% OBC reservation would apply to 66 classes, requiring the recruitment panels to be recast.
Effect on recruitment
Earlier 17% Framework
Candidates applied under the reservation terms announced when online applications opened on June 16 of the previous year.
Revised 7% Framework
The School Service Commission says the new policy requires revised panels and additional time to complete recruitment.
Key facts
- Previous OBC reservation
- 17%: 10% for OBC-A and 7% for OBC-B.
- Revised OBC reservation
- 7% for 66 classes.
- Higher secondary deadline
- August 25.
- Secondary deadline
- August 25 to August 31.
- Plus II vacancies
- 12,445 teaching posts.
- Secondary vacancies
- 23,209 teaching posts.
- Extension requested
- Eight additional months from the Supreme Court.
Quotes
School Service Commission
The commission that oversees recruitment for teaching posts in government-aided schools
“Then he or she will have to select the edit option from the drop-down menu (listing 66 classes). Then the candidate will have to specify his or her sub-category (in case of OBC), the applicable certificate number and issuing authority in separate boxes...”
telegraphindia.com
“This (May 18 notice) necessitates the commission to recast the initial panel for Class IX-X/final panel for XI-XII candidates and will require additional time to complete the recruitment process”
telegraphindia.com
Sources
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