The West Bengal School Service Commission’s chairman on Friday said they would brief the high court next week about the steps the panel had taken to cancel the recommendation for appointment for teachers who got their jobs in government-aided secondary schools illegally.
The commission told the court on Thursday that it would act against 800-odd teachers who were found to have got their jobs illegally (through manipulation of marks).
“We are likely to submit a preliminary report to the court on February 15 about the steps the commission has taken,” WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumdar said.
“Those who have a bigger mismatch of marks (marks in the selection test results not corresponding to the response captured on the OMR sheets) will have their recommendations cancelled in the first phase. As for those with a marks mismatch of 1 or 2, we will arrange for manual scanning of their OMR sheets,” Majumdar said.
“The manual scanning will ensure no one is victim of injustice.”
OMR (optical mark recognition) answer scripts are scanned by computer.
“By undertaking manual scanning, we want to find out whether the machine during a high-speed scan made any mistakes.... In some cases, computers read unintentional pen marks on OMR sheets. Manual scanning could detect those errors,” said an official of the commission.
The 800-odd teachers had written the selection test for appointment held by the SSC in 2016. Subires Bhattacharyya, who is in CBI custody in connection with alleged irregularities in appointments, was the SSC chief then.
