KOLKATA: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has disqualified 300 candidates -- all of whom had qualified for interviews for higher secondary teacher posts -- after they were found to have submitted forged experience certificates to claim the 10-mark weightage allotted for prior teaching experience.
Officials from the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) stated that some of these disqualified candidates even provided forged birth certificates and academic mark sheets.
These disqualified candidates were identified as having furnished forged documents relating to their experience, age proofs, and academic qualifications during the scrutiny and verification of their documents by the WBSSC authorities, which began on November 18.
Candidates who appeared for the written test conducted in September this year but could not qualify for the interview after being unable to take advantage of the 10-mark weightage criterion for past teaching experience claimed that from the beginning, they had been objecting to this experience criterion.