Teachers wait for jobs and justice

More than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff have lost their jobs after the Supreme Court found that the appointments were fraught with ‘irregularities’. Thousands of women and men will now have to retake the examination again, to qualify for a teacher’s job. As the West Bengal government prepares for the fresh recruitment process, Shrabana Chatterjee and Moyurie Som speak to those who are unable to reconcile with the idea of going through the recruitment process again

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