Kolkata: Rivals within the political enviornment, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have competed seemingly to grow to be lecturers. Not far behind are the likes of Abhishek Banerjee, Dilip Ghosh, Sukanta Majumdar, Sujan Chakraborty and Suvendu Adhikari.
The Instructor Eligibility Take a look at (TET) 2014 outcomes present all these political heavyweights having cleared the examination with flying colors.
Shah has secured 93 marks, Mamata 92, Abhishek 98, Ghosh 84, Majumdar 90, and Chakraborty 99. Mamata’s protégé-turned-bete noire Suvendu has scored an ideal 100.
The benefit listing, which was printed on West Bengal Board of Main Training (WBBPE) web site on 11 November, runs into 1,832 pages with the names of 11.25 lakh candidates who cleared the written examination to look for the subsequent rounds of assessments to be recruited as lecturers within the state government-run faculties.
Understandably, the WBBPE is now on the centre of political uproar in West Bengal with the opposition alleging irregularities in class recruitments within the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-ruled state.
The Board has dismissed allegations that the listing had faux names. “These are namesakes and we have now additionally supplied the names of the candidate’s father and their contact numbers. Makes an attempt being made by political events to malign the state,” WBBPE president Goutam Paul advised a media briefing Monday.
Paul contended that there isn’t a rule that there can’t be a couple of individual with the identical title within the state.
ThePrint contacted the candidates whose names matched the well-known politicians of West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee, a resident of Bankura, advised ThePrint that she had appeared for the TET in 2014.
One other namesake Dilip Ghosh knowledgeable that he was a resident of Bankura and appeared for the doorway check in 2014. Equally, Sujan Chakraborty (to not be confused with the chief from the Communist Social gathering of India-Marxist) mentioned he lives in North 24 Parganas and had additionally appeared for the interview however didn’t qualify.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), the principle opposition celebration, is having none of it over the listing of profitable candidates with names matching that of the celebration biggies.
Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari mocked the benefit listing, saying he wished to get a job at a college subsequent to Mamata’s residence in Kolkata. “I need a job now and I would like the kids from the CM’s home to come back and study at my faculty the place I’ll train,” Suvendu mentioned Monday exterior the Raj Bhavan.
However, City Improvement and Municipal Affairs minister Firhad Hakim claimed it was a conspiracy in opposition to the state. “A couple of individuals are attempting to mislead the folks of the state and malign us. The training division ought to discover out the culprits who’re attempting to malign the state and act in opposition to them if the names are faux,” he advised reporters on Monday.
West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar shared the listing on Twitter. “That is the extent of training and evaluation in West Bengal. Corruption is excessive and training and evaluation is poor. Unhappy state of affairs. When did @MamataOfficial cease taking part in with lifetime of candidates?” he tweeted.
The 2014 TET jobseekers have been protesting in Kolkata claiming they had been denied jobs which had been as an alternative given to undeserving candidates in lieu of cash. The instructing aspirants vowed to proceed their combat until they get jobs in authorities faculties of West Bengal.
Each the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are probing the alleged lecturers’ recruitment rip-off of West Bengal. A number of high-profile arrests together with that of training minister Partha Chatterjee, Manik Bhattacharya who was the previous chairman of WB Board of Main Training and TMC MLA and different officers of the training division have taken place.
In October, the CBI named 12 accused, together with the previous chairman, ex-advisor, after which assistant secretary of West Bengal Central Faculty Service Fee, then president of an advert hoc committee of West Bengal Board of Secondary Training, in its cost sheet within the Bengal trainer recruitment rip-off.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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