The Calcutta Excessive Court docket on Friday (June 20, 2025) restrained the West Bengal Authorities from implementing a scheme until September 26 to offer financial assist to non-teaching employees who misplaced their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment that held the selection process tainted.

The Court docket had on June 9, 2025 reserved judgment on the petitions, which opposed the cost of ₹25,000 every to Group C and ₹20,000 every to Group D workers who misplaced their jobs on the Supreme Court docket Order, by the State.

Retain school staff till new recruitment, Supreme Court tells West Bengal

In an interim order, Justice Amrita Sinha restrained the State Authorities from giving any impact or additional impact to the scheme for offering financial aid to the non-teaching employees until September 26 or till additional order, whichever is earlier.

She directed the State Authorities to file its affidavit in opposition to the contentions of the petitioners in 4 weeks and reply by the petitioners inside a fortnight thereafter.

The West Bengal Authorities had launched a scheme to offer “restricted livelihood, assist and social safety on humanitarian floor” on momentary foundation, topic to orders of any competent courtroom, to distressed households of non-teaching employees in Group C and D classes, who have been recruited by the 2016 choice course of carried out by the West Bengal College Service Fee.

Practically, 26,000 instructing and non-teaching employees of West Bengal Authorities-sponsored and -aided colleges misplaced their jobs on a Supreme Court docket judgment, which discovered the 2016 choice course of tainted.