The school service commission will conduct the first phase of counselling on March 23 for waitlisted candidates to fill vacancies that were created after the cancellation of the appointment of 785 Group C employees who got jobs in government-aided schools illegally.
In the first phase, 100 waitlisted candidates have been called to appear for the counselling at the SSC’s office in Salt Lake.
Each eligible candidate can download the intimation letter for the counselling process from the commission website on and from March 20 along with the list of vacancies on offer.
The commission, in a notice, has announced that if any candidate, called to attend the counselling process, “is found to be related to any irregularity including manipulation of their OMRs, shall have his/ her recommendation revoked and candidature cancelled without any further notice”.
It has also announced at the time of verification of original documents during the counselling “if any mismatch, misrepresentation of fact and defect or fault is detected, the candidature of the concerned candidate will be cancelled forthwith without any notice”.
An SSC official said they were taking steps so that a transparent recruitment process could be carried out from the pool of waitlisted candidates at the earliest.
A notice signed by the council’s chairperson Siddhartha Majumdar says: “If any candidate, called to attend such counselling process, is found to be related to any irregularity…. shall have his/her recommendation revoked….”
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court on March 10 asked the SSC to cancel the job recommendations of 785 Group C employees because they got their jobs through the manipulation of marks.
The Telegraph reported on March 14 that at least four Group C candidates who got zero based on the evaluation of their OMR sheets were shown to have scored 57 or 56 in the results uploaded on the server of the commission.
“Drawing lessons from this fiasco, we have come up with a warning about any irregularity including manipulation of their OMRs. The commission wants to undertake a transparent recruitment exercise,” said an SSC official.
Another official said out of 3,030 candidates whose marks stored on the SSC’s server were found to be more than the scores they should have got based on the scanning of their OMR sheets, 785 had been recommended by the commission for appointment as Group C employees.
“We don’t want this to happen any more,” he said.
Some of the Group C employees have moved an appeal before the division bench against their termination.
A commission official said they want to remain vigilant during the verification of original documents at the time of counselling so that any erroneous recruitment does not take place through any mismatch, misrepresentation of fact and defect or fault.
Group C employees are lower division clerks who prepare files, draw salary bills and do other office jobs.