The minister’s remarks come at a time when hundreds of protesters are demonstrating every day over the alleged illegality in the recruitment process.
The minister’s remarks come at a time when hundreds of protesters are demonstrating every day over the alleged illegality in the recruitment process.
West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Monday clarified that the state government will not give jobs to every job seeker who opposes the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam.
“It can’t be that everyone is protesting [against the State government] Job will be given. There is no connection between protest and jobs. Appointments are given on the basis of merit,” Mr Basu said.
Speaking to a private television news channel, the minister said that not all those who passed JEE exam came to engineering colleges nor did those who passed UGC-NET got jobs as teachers in colleges.
Mr Basu said there was “negativity” against the state government, and it was being portrayed as if the protesters were right, the opposition parties were right, the judiciary was definitely right and the state government was at fault. The Minister expressed hope that soon the problem of teacher recruitment would be resolved with the intervention of the Calcutta High Court.
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The minister’s remarks come at a time when hundreds of protesters are protesting every day over alleged illegalities in the recruitment process and demanding jobs as teachers and non-teaching staff in government schools. A job seeker protesting at Esplanade against Group C and Group D recruitment scams said, “The deserving candidates are sitting in protest and some others have got jobs by paying money and manipulating the recruitment process. ”
The situation in the city’s Murshidabad district turned volatile on Monday, with supporters of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), clashed with the police during their agitation. DYFI supporters are protesting in the district after a youth allegedly committed suicide after he was not given a job as a school teacher despite paying money to local touts.
Leaders of opposition parties – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left objected to the remarks made by the Education Minister. State BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said that none of the protesters was saying that they all need jobs, but the state government should provide the correct merit list and also explain why it was tampered with.
CPI(M) state committee member Sujan Chakraborty said it is the responsibility of the state government to provide jobs to deserving people and it has failed to do so. “The minister should realize that the entire education department is in jail for irregularities in the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, a city court on Monday rejected the bail plea of former minister Partha Chatterjee and sent him to judicial custody till November 14. Mr Chatterjee was arrested in the recruitment scam by the Enforcement Directorate on July 23, following which crores of rupees were recovered. The residence of his colleague Arpita Mukherjee.
(Those in distress can reach the Suicide Prevention Helpline – Kolkata – 033-2463740, 1033-24637432)