Candidates check their seating arrangements before appearing for a West Bengal School Service Commission’s (WBSSC) school staff recruitment examination, at an exam centre, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on September 7, 2025.
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The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has published the results in the rehiring process of teachers who lost their jobs after the April 3 Supreme Court order. Wrong marking and collapsed WBSSC website raise concern among candidates.
Candidates who appeared for the posts of Class 11, 12 teaching assistants have received their results from the official website. Though the officials announced the results late on Friday (November 7, 2025) night, the website remained inaccessible till Saturday (November 8, 2025) evening. Most candidates could not view their results and remained uncertain, while the ones who managed to see their results highlighted multiple wrong markings on correct answers.
“Many have not been able to see their results yet because the website is still not working. However, for many subjects, even the correct answers are marked wrong. SSC has told us that it is a typing mistake,” Mehboob Mondal, leader of the ‘Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhikar Mancha’ (Deserving Teachers’ Rights Forum) said.
“This test is only 60% of the total marks that the teachers will get, the rest 40% will be based on our teaching experience and interviews, what will happen to the teachers who were working for 6 years but may not make it in the last rounds? They will be pushed towards death,” Mr. Mondal added.
Other teachers who lost their job after the WBSSC scam also said that they were in no mental or physical state to take part in the exams and had very little time to prepare for the exams because they were left fighting cases in court. “With such mental burden we are fighting a battle with lakhs of fresh candidates. How will we make it?” another teacher who appeared for the fresh exams asked.
“The result of written examination for class levels XI-XII in respect of 2nd SLST, 2025 for recruitment of Assistant Teachers in Government aided/sponsored schools in West Bengal is being published today, 7 th of November, 2025. The examination was held on the 14th of September, 2025 in 35 subjects. Total number of examinees who appeared was 229606 and the number of venues was 478,” an official release from the WBSSC said on Friday (November 7, 2025) night.
State Education Minister Bratya Basu applauded the development and said that it was possible due to the sincere cooperation of administrative staff and patronage of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“This result publication is not merely an administrative step, but rather a unique stride forward toward the implementation of new recruitments by December — a fulfillment of a promise,” Mr. Basu wrote on his post on social media handle X.
Long road to jobs
An April 3 order by the Supreme Court annulled around 26,000 jobs of teaching and non-teaching staff in schools, citing irregularities in the hiring process of the 2016 panel. This led to months of protests with thousands of teachers out on the road and multiple scuffles with authorities. They demanded that the proven “untainted” candidates, who were not named in the corruption be reinstated at their previous jobs without going through the fresh hiring process. However, that request was not accepted by the government or the courts.
A fresh recruitment process for both teaching and non-teaching staff is in progress as per the Supreme Court order which had directed that the entire 2016 panel be cancelled and a fresh hiring process be completed by December 31.
There are over 35,726 fresh posts in the State-aided schools in this year’s recruitment process. Over 5 lakh candidates applied for these posts of teachers for classes 9 to 12.
Published – November 08, 2025 05:16 pm IST
