West Bengal school jobs case: Mamata says she stands by those who lost jobs, will do everything to restore their dignity

Chaos outside Kolkata stadium as jobless teachers demand entry, police struggle to control the crowd for meeting with CM.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met hundreds of people who had lost their jobs as teaching and non-teaching staffers in West Bengal Government-run and aided schools, at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Monday (April 7, 2025).

“I stand by those who lost jobs in schools in Bengal, will do everything to restore their dignity,” CM Mamata Banerjee said at the meeting, adding “I will not allow eligible candidates to lose school jobs.”

The Supreme Court had last week upheld a Calcutta High Court order nullifying the appointment of over 25,000 teaching and non-teaching jobs in West Bengal Government-run and aided schools, holding that the whole recruitment process was vitiated.

Ms. Banerjee said that she is bound by the SC verdict on school jobs, but taking proactive steps to ensure situation is handled with utmost care, fairness.

“My name being dragged into something about which I have no inkling,” she said on the discrepancies in Bengal school job appointments.

Earlier in the day, chaos prevailed outside the stadium as people who had not been issued entry passes also arrived at the venue to attend the programme.

Police officers, present in large numbers, had a tough time pacifying the assembled people who wanted to enter the indoor stadium to be present at the meeting.