Bengal teacher exam: More than two lakh candidates take exams in the second round

Kolkata, September 14 (IANS). The second round of the state level selection exam (SLST) conducted by the West Bengal School Services Commission (WBSSC) will be held on Sunday. The recruitment examination of teachers for classes 11 and 12 (higher secondary) is from 12 afternoon to 1.30. However, the disabled candidates will get an extra 30 -minute extra time. There are 12,514 vacancies for classes 11 and 12. The total number of candidates appearing in the second round SLST exam is approximately 2,46,000. At the same time, the total number of examination centers 478. The first round of SLST was held on September 7 without any disturbances. More than 3.19 Lakh candidates appeared in the first round of the exam. State Education Minister Brity Basu said: “We informed WBSSC according to the instructions given by the main minister. I want to ensure that the administration has taken difficult steps at the highest level to do the exam without any mistake.” He asked the investigators to take the exam with a peaceful mind. On our part of the department and on behalf of the Chief Minister, WBSSC has made preparations at the highest level to make the examination smoothly. I hope that the exam will be concluded peacefully and without any problems. According to WBSSC, SLST is arranged to fill 35,726 Teacher Posts for classes 9-10 and 11-12. From these vacancies, 23,212 posts for classes 9 and 10 and 12,514 posts for class 11 and 12. The total number of applicants for both recruitment phases crossed 5.65 lakhs. This examination is performed under the background of the scam of the recruitment of teachers who have shaken the politics of West Bengale over the past few years. Central Investigations Agencies have arrested candidates, including former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, Trinamol Mla Jeevan Krishna Saha and several officials of the State Education Department for the acquisition of the candidates as a teacher work and misappropriation in the OMR page. These candidates appeared in the SLST exam in 2016; The last time WBSSC took a recruitment exam to fill the teaching posts in classes 9-10 and 11-12. On April 3, the Supreme Court canceled the appointment of approximately 26 thousand teachers and non-teaching staff, which was recruited after the 2016 selection process. The new exams are conducted after the Supreme Court’s order, which prevented the infected and disqualified candidates from the previous panel (2016) from appearing in the new exam. According to the Supreme Court order, WBSSC published a list of names of 1,806 infected candidates on August 30, which obtained the recruitment fraud. -Ians psk