After A Commotion Regarding “Netas” On The Bengal Teacher Test Rank List, The Board Explains That Mamata Scored 92%
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, rivals in politics, have reportedly fought to become teachers. The likes of Abhishek Banerjee, Dilip Ghosh, Sukanta Majumdar, Sujan Chakraborty, and Suvendu Adhikari aren’t far behind either.
According to the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2014 results, all of these influential political figures passed the test with flying colors.
Mamata received 92, Shah 93, Abhishek 98, Ghosh 84, Majumdar 90, and Chakraborty 99 as their highest scores. Suvendu, Mamata’s protégé-turned-enemy, received a perfect score of 100.
The names of the 11.25 lakh candidates who passed the written exam and qualified to appear for the subsequent rounds of testing to be hired as teachers in the state government-run schools are listed on the merit list, which was published on the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) website on November 11 and spans 1,832 pages.
It makes sense that the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) is at the center of a political controversy right now, as the opposition has accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of conducting shady school hiring practices.
Paul argued that there is no law prohibiting more than one person in a state from having the same name.
Candidates whose names matched those of prominent West Bengal leaders were approached by sources. A Bankura resident named Mamata Banerjee informed ThePrint that she took the TET in 2014.
Another name-bearer, Dilip Ghosh, said that he was a Bankura resident and took the admission exam in 2014. Sujan Chakraborty, who should not be confused with the leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, also claimed to reside in North 24 Parganas and to have attended the interview but was ineligible.
The main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is not having it with the list of victorious candidates whose names coincide with those of party heavyweights.
Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition, made fun of the merit list by joking that he wanted a job at a school in Kolkata close to Mamata’s house.
The 2014 TET job applicants have been demonstrating in Kolkata, claiming they were turned down for positions that were instead given to deserving applicants in exchange for cash. The prospective teachers vowed to keep fighting until they were hired by West Bengal’s public schools.
The alleged West Bengal teacher recruitment scandal is being looked into by both the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). There have been a number of prominent arrests, including that of the education minister Partha Chatterjee, the former chairperson of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education Manik Bhattacharya, a TMC MLA, and other education department employees.
In its charge sheet for the Bengal teacher recruitment scam, the CBI named 12 suspects in October. These included the former chairman, advisor, and assistant secretary of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission as well as the president of an ad hoc committee of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.
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