The West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) on Saturday released the 2016 ‘tainted candidates list’ as per the Supreme Court order, which directed the commission to release the names within a week. The list, uploaded at 8 pm on the commission's website, includes the names, roll numbers, and serial numbers of the 1,804 'tainted' teachers.
The SSC officials claim these candidates had either tampered with OMR sheets or jumped ranks with the help of influential people to avail the jobs. According to the commission, out of the 25,753 appointments invalidated by the Supreme Court's April 3 verdict, 5,303 teaching and non-teaching staff were found to be tainted. Of these, 1,804 are teachers. The number of untainted teachers stands at 15,803.
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Details of the tainted list
According to local media reports, some of the tainted candidates are children of former ministers, councilors, and some are closely connected to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who was jailed after the scam was uncovered. Most of the names in the tainted list are allegedly connected to the ruling Trinamool Congress, according to TV9.
There are also allegations that the list is vague. Though the SSC published the names and roll numbers, it did not provide the addresses of 'tainted' teachers or the schools they taught in. Therefore, there is still a high possibility of names being omitted.
Some of the names include Ankita Adhikari, the daughter of former state minister Paresh Adhikari. Her case had gained attention long back, and the Trinamool leader was accused of squeezing in his daughter’s name using his influence in the list. The matter reached the Calcutta High Court, which cancelled her job and ordered her to return her salary.
Other names in the list include Bivas Malik, a powerful Trinamool leader from Khanakul, Hooghly, who is a member of the Zilla Parishad. He was working in a school in Tarkeshwar until he lost his job. Interestingly, his wife was also on the tainted list. Priyanka Mondal, daughter of Debes Mondal, the Trinamool president of Hingalganj, and Namita Adaka, wife of another Trinamool leader from Khanakul, are also in the list, according to TV9.
Sahina Sultana, a member of the Hooghly Zilla Parishad, and Kavita Burman, a councilor from Uttar Dinajpur, are also in the list. Burman was a Trinamool member at that time, but later switched to the BJP.
Another high-profile Trinamool candidate is Ajay Majhi, the regional president of the Trinamool Congress for the Jalchak area in West Midnapore district. Kuheli Ghosh, a Trinamool councilor of Ward No. 18 of Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality, is also on the list.
