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WBSSC recruitment: CBI gets details about number of OMR sheets tampered with

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Kolkata: With the arrest of a top official of an OMR sheet manufacturing entity, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths have got the details about the number of OMR sheets that were allegedly tampered with in different examinations for recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in West Bengal state-run schools.
These examinations were conducted by West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).
According to sources, during the interrogation of Niladri Das, the vice-president of OMR sheet manufacturing entity, NYSA, the CBI sleuths have secured information about 8,163 OMR sheets that were allegedly tampered with to make room for ineligible candidates.
Sources, citing CBI sleuths, claimed that as many as 6,304 OMR sheets were tampered with in case of non-teaching staff, which included 3,481 Group-D posts and 2,823 Group-C posts.
In case of teaching staff, the total number OMR sheets that were tampered with stands at 1,859, out of which 952 were for recruitment of secondary teachers while the remaining 907 were for recruitment of teachers at higher secondary level.
“Our sleuths are now trying to track how Das financially benefited from this tampering of OMR sheets,” said a CBI associate.
Das is currently in CBI custody and is facing marathon investigation by the central agency.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that this is not the first time that Das had been arrested. In March 2019, he was arrested by the sleuths of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal police in a case of forgery following an FIR filed against him in East Midnapore district.

Preliminary investigation by the central agency have revealed that Das’s connection with the WBSSC was through the commission’s former chairman Subiresh Bhattacharya.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 25, 2023
Recruitment scam: WBSSC publishes list of 3,478 Group C staff with manipulated marks

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Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday published on its website a list of 3,478 candidates who reportedly have qualified for appointment as non-teaching staff in different state-run schools through manipulation of marks.
The list, uploaded on the commission’s website as per the order of Calcutta High Court’s Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, has clearly shown how marks as low as “0” to “1” in the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets have increased to as high as “54” to 57″ in the server.
The discrepancies in the marks in the OMR sheets and those in the commission’s server was brought to limelight by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating the multi-crore teachers and non-teaching staff recruitment scam. Now, by officially uploading that disparity on this website late Monday afternoon, the WBSSC authorities too have endorsed the CBI’s findings in the matter.
The list published on the website of the commission on Monday has three columns. The first and second columns carry the names and roll numbers of the candidates concerned. The third column mentioned the published marks as shown in the commission’s website and the fourth column showed the actual marks scored in the OMR sheet.
Similar discrepancies in marks in the OMR sheets and on the commission’s server was also noted by the Calcutta High Court last year in case of recruitment of secondary teachers.
Till the time the report was filed, not a single Trinamool Congress leader was willing to come forward with any comment on the matter. However, the opposition leaders in the state lambasted the state government and the ruling party in the matter.
“Previously it was thought that 80 per cent of the recruitments were illegal and at least in the case of 20 per cent the eligible candidates secured jobs. But now it seems that 100 per cent of the recruitment is illegal,” said CPI-M Central Committee member Sujan Chakraborty.
Senior state BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that this is an organised crime and it is not possible that it was conducted without the knowledge of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 13, 2023
WBSSC scam: Calcutta HC orders termination of 842 Group C staff

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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered termination of services of 842 non-teaching staff in the Group C category who were allegedly provided appointments illegally against the monetary considerations in different state-run schools in West Bengal.
The single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court also directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) to issue separate notifications on the cancellation of recommendation letter and termination of services on this count by 12 p.m. on Saturday.
Justice Gangopadhyay also directed the commission and the board to ensure that no salaries are credited to Group C staff henceforth.
Justice Gangopadhyay’s order on Friday comes following a submission by the WBSSC in court that of these 842 Group C staff, 785 secured appointments through tampering with the optical mark recognition sheets, while the remaining 57 got appointments without valid recommendations from the commission.
While passing the order, Justice Gangopadhyay observed that neither the commission nor the state education department could avoid taking the responsibility for such massive recruitment corruption.
“The fruits of this corruption have gone in favour of some influential people in the commission and the state education department,” he observed.
He also directed the commission to start the process of filling up the vacant posts resulting from the termination from the waiting list within the next 10 days.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 10, 2023