Department: School Education
Subject:
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
School Education Department
(Secondary Branch)
Bikash Bhawan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091
No. 1104-SE/S/1S-26/2010 (Pt.-III) Dated the 20th September, 2016.
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1) of section 17, read with section 8 and clause (d) of subsection (2) section 17, of the West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997 (West Ben. Act IV of 1997), and in supersession of the West Bengal School Service Commission (Selection of Persons for Appointment to the Posts of Teachers in Upper Primary Level) Rules, 2015, issued with this Department notification No. 485-SE(S)/1S-26/2010 (Part I), dated the 3rd June, 2015, published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, Part I, dated the 3rd June, 2015, the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following rules regulating the manner and scope of selection of persons for appointment to the posts of Teachers for Upper Primary Level of Schools:-
Rules
1. Short title and commencement
(1) These rules may be called the West Bengal School Service Commission (Selection for Appointment to the Posts of Teachers for Upper Primary Level of Schools) Rules, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997 (West Ben. Act IV of 1997);
(b) “Category” means Subject Category, medium of instruction category, reservation category, and gender category in each subject group or in Physical Education or Work Education as the case may be;
(c) “concerned subject”, in relation to a post, means a subject against which a vacancy has been reported for the purpose of selection of a person to the post:
Provided that the Central Commission shall determine equivalence of any subject with the approval of the State Government as per clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 17 of the Act;
(d) “Degree or Diploma” means Graduation or Post-Graduation from a University recognised by the University Grants Commission, or a professional qualification duly recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), as the case may be;
(e) “interview list”, in respect of SLST, means-
(i) in case of vacancies other than Physical Education/Work Education vacancies, a list of candidates to be called for personality test category-wise on the basis of merit (weightage of TET, academic and professional qualification) in the ratio of 1:1.4 of final vacancies;
(ii) in case of Physical Education/Work Education vacancies, a list of candidates to be called for personality test category-wise on the basis of merit (marks in written test, academic and professional qualification) in the ratio of 1:1.4 of final vacancies;
(f) “merit list”, in respect of SLST, means-
(i) in case of posts other than Physical Education and Work Education, a list of candidates prepared category-wise on the basis of merit (weightage of TET, academic and professional qualification and marks obtained in personality test) from Interview List;
(ii) in case of posts of Physical Education and Work Education, a list of candidates prepared category-wise on the basis of merit (marks of written test, academic and professional qualification and marks obtained in personality test) from Interview List;
(g) “Panel” means a list of candidates (category-wise) of the merit list equal to the number of final vacancies and includes a panel (region-wise) on the basis of the option exercised by the candidates;
(h) “waiting list” means a list of candidates from the merit list (category-wise) but not included in the panel;
(i) “Post” means a whole-time post of Teacher for Upper Primary Level of Schools against declared and sanctioned vacancy in respect of any of the following subjects
(i) Mathematics and Science group (Biological Science and Pure Science);
(ii) Social Studies Group (History and Geography);
(iii) Language Group (Bengali, English, Urdu, Arabic, Nepali, Santhali, Oriya, Persian, French, Sanskrit, Hindi, Telegu or any other language) notified in the Official Gazette for inclusion in this group;
(iv) Physical Education;
(v) Work Education;
(j) “Reserved Category” means category of reservation in respect of the Schedule Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Other Backward Classes (Group A and Group B) and Physically Handicapped candidates;
(k) “Schedule” means Schedules appended to these rules;
(l) “State” means the State of West Bengal;
(m) “State Government” means the Government of West Bengal in the School Education Department;
(n) “State Level Selection Test (SLST)” means the test to be conducted by the Central School Service Commission for recruitment of Teachers of the categories stated in these rules;
(o) “sub-rule” means sub-rule of a rule in which the word or expression occurs;
(p) “vacancy” means a vacancy in the post of a Teacher for classes of Upper Primary Level caused by-
(i) creation of a new post;
(ii) superannuation;
(iii) death;
(iv) resignation;
(v) transfer;
(vi) removal or dismissal;
(vii) any other reason, apart from the above, as the State Government may, by order, determine;
(q) “NCTE” means the National Council for Teacher Education (a statutory body of the Government of India);
(r) “Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)” means Teacher Eligibility Test of the classes for Upper Primary Level covered under these Rules conducted by the State Government or through its specified agency as per NCTE Guidelines and other notifications issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, from time to time in this regard and the State Government or such agency shall issue a Certificate to be known as ‘TET Certificate’ to the Candidates who have qualified in TET;
(s) “Upper Primary” means general education above primary level till completion of Elementary Education within the meaning of RTE Act for admission in Secondary Education stage;
(t) “Physical Education/Work Education vacancy” means vacancy for the post of a teacher in a school for classes covered under these Rules for the purpose of pertaining teaching in Physical Education/Work Education;
(u) “Professional qualification (except Physical Education or Work Education)” includes as follows
(i) 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known),
(ii) 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.),
(iii) 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.) in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition norms and procedure) Regulation issued from time to time in this regard,
(iv) 1-year B.Ed. (Special Education),
(v) 2-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.) in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition norms and procedure) Regulation issued from time to time in this regard,
(vi) 4-year BA/B.Sc Ed. Or BA Ed/B.Sc. Ed,
(vii) 4-year Bachelor in Elementary Education (B. EL Ed) includes Bachelor Degree along with professional qualification as integrated course,
(viii) 2-years B.Ed. Programme through Open Distance Learning (ODL) method conducted by Netaji Subhash Open University and Approved by Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI).
Note 1.- Diploma /Degree Course in Teacher Education recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) only shall be considered. However, in case B.Ed. (Special Education), a course recognized by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) only shall be considered.
Note 2.- B.Ed. (Special Education degree holder) shall have to undergo 6 months training on special programme in Elementary Education in an NCTE recognize institution after appointment.
(v) “Qualification” includes qualification of the teachers as notified by the NCTE and relaxation of qualifications, if any, extended by the Central Government from time to time up to the date of publication of advertisement;
(w) “RTE Act” means the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
(2) Words and expressions used and not defined in these rules but defined in the Act, shall have the same meanings as respectively assigned to them in the Act.
3. Method of recruitment
The appointment of persons to the posts mentioned in Schedule I shall be made by selection (direct recruitment) through SLST by the West Bengal School Service Commission in the manner as mentioned in rule 7.
4. Name of post, essential qualification and age
(1) The name of the posts, and its qualification shall, subject to rule 5, be such as specified in Schedule I:
Provided that the candidates possessing valid TET Certificates shall be eligible for appearing in the selection under these rules, in spite of the fact that they have exceeded upper age-limit, subject to the condition that the age of such candidate on first day January of the Year of holding the TET has been within the prescribed age-limit.
Provided further that the qualification for the posts of Teacher includes academic qualification and professional qualification of teachers for Upper Primary Level of Schools notified by NCTE and includes the relaxation of qualification, if any, extended by the Central Government or NCTE, as the case may be, from time to time on the date of advertisement by the Central Commission or in case of Work Education, relaxation of qualification as may be notified by the State Government.
Provided also that certificates received on or before the last date of the application and mentioned in the application form, shall be counted for academic and professional qualification.
(2) The age-limit for the post shall be such as specified in Schedule I:
Provided that a non-teaching staff or a Teacher having post-graduate degree but holding lower category of post, may apply with maximum age of 55 years as on the 1st day of January of the year of advertisement.
5. Additional essential qualification of candidate
A candidate willing to be selected as a Upper Primary Teacher having Bengali or English or Hindi or Nepali or Oriya or Santhali or Telegu or Urdu as the medium of instruction, shall have Bengali or English or Hindi or Nepali or Oriya or Santhali or Telegu or Urdu, as the case may be, as first or second or third language at Secondary level of the Board or equivalent or at Higher Secondary level of the Council or equivalent.
6. Disqualification
(1) No person shall be eligible for selection for appointment to the post of teachers for Upper Primary Level of Schools unless he is a citizen of India.
(2) No person shall be eligible for selection for appointment to the post of teachers for Upper Primary Level of Schools if he/she is convicted by any Court of law or who is under suspension from any school or removed from service from any school or against whom criminal case is pending in any court of law.
7. Manner of selection
(1) Selection to the post of such Teacher (except Physical Education and Work Education) shall be made category-wise on the basis of merit (weightage of TET, academic and professional qualification and marks obtained in personality test), in the manner as specified in Part A of Schedule III.
(2) Selection to the post of such Teacher in Physical Education and Work Education shall be made on the basis of the results of the written examination conducted by the Central Commission, evaluation of academic and professional qualifications and personality tests of the candidates in the manner as specified in Part B of Schedule III.
(3) The Central Commission may, in its discretion, fix qualifying marks, to be scored by the candidates, in written examination or in aggregate or in both and/or relax the qualifying marks on reasonable grounds and reasons to be recorded in writing.
8. Information regarding vacancies
(1) The District Inspectors of Schools (Secondary Education) shall, on being asked by the Director of School Education, prepare a report regarding the number of vacancies in posts, Subject group-wise, subject-wise, medium-wise, gender-wise and reservation category-wise for the posts of Teachers and send it to the Directorate of School Education.
(2) On receipt of report under sub-rule (1), the Directorate of School Education shall, with due approval of the State Government, send the Subject group-wise, subject-wise, medium-wise, gender-wise and reservation category-wise vacancy report compiled region-wise, earmarked vacancies such posts, if any, declared by the State Government for any year, to the Central Commission.
(3) The report as mentioned in sub-rule (2), shall be sent to the Central Commission in the following manner:-
(a) firstly, before the date of publication of the advertisement inviting application; and
(b) lastly, fifteen (15) days before the date of publication of the result of the written examination or Interview list, as the case may be.
(4) The State Government may, by notification, earmark upto 10% of the total vacant posts with a view to provide adequate representation of the Para Teachers without disturbing 100 point roster as may be notified from time to time. If there is no notification to earmark the posts or if the posts remain vacant due to nonavailability of suitable candidates, the earmarked posts shall be filled up as per general procedures as mentioned in these rules from the qualified eligible candidates.
9. Advertisement
(1) The Central Commission shall, on receipt of the report of region-wise vacancies under rule 8, issue an advertisement through newspapers in the State in English, Bengali, Hindi and/or in any other languages, if necessary, as may be decided by the Commission and also through the website of the Commission.
(2) Such advertisement shall be issued specifying the vacancies, qualification, age as on the 1 st day of January of the year of advertisement and other necessary information relating to such posts, details of which may be obtained through the website of the Central Commission and from the Offices of Central Commission and Regional Commissions.
(3) While specifying the vacancies in the advertisement, the Central Commission shall, for the said posts of such Teachers, publish a tentative number of vacancy at the time of inviting applications for State Level Selection Test (SLST) that have been reported under clause (a) of sub-rule (3) of rule 8 and a final vacancy list at the time of publication of Interview list except Physical Education and Work Education and in case of Physical Education and Work Education at the time of publication of the result of the written examination declaring the actual vacancies that have been reported under clause (b) of sub-rule (3) of rule 8. Subject-wise vacancies in each group shall be clearly mentioned and candidates may choose his/her subject group which he/she had in TET Examination and the subject chosen shall be a subject in his/her Graduation level for vacancies except Physical Education and Work Education.
10. Form of application
(1) The form of application for State Level Selection Test (SLST) for appointment to the posts shall be such, as may be determined by the Central Commission from time to time.
(2) The proforma of the form of application may be published in the Newspapers or the Commission’s Website as may be determined by and at the discretion of the Central Commission.
(3) The fees of SLST shall be such as may be fixed by the Central Commission from time to time.
11. Submission of applications
The applications shall be submitted within such time and in such manner as may be specified by the Central Commission in the advertisement.
12. Method of SLST for selection of candidates and preparation of panel for teachers (except Physical Education and Work Education)
(1) The Central Commission shall arrange for proper custody of all online applications which may be received by it against the vacancies.
(2) The Central Commission after receiving application forms shall prepare list of eligible candidates for the purpose of preparation of a computer generated database of all the candidates.
(3) The Central Commission shall verify the validity of TET Certificate, academic and professional qualification of the candidates having valid TET Certificates and marks obtained in TET and other academic and professional qualification shall be evaluated in the manner mentioned in Part A of Schedule II.
(4) The Central Commission shall prepare and publish in their website and Interview List with all details of the candidates to be called for personality test, category-wise on the basis of merit as mentioned in Part A of Schedule II in the ratio of 1:1.4 of final vacancies.
(5) After interview, the Central Commission shall, from Interview List, prepare and publish a merit list category-wise on the basis of merit (weightage of TET, academic and professional qualification and marks obtained in personality test) as per Part A of Schedule III.
(6) The Central Commission shall also prepare and publish in their website a Panel of candidates (category wise) equal to the number of vacancies and a category-wise waiting list of the rest of the candidates from merit list who were not included in the panel. From the panel the Central Commission shall prepare Region-wise lists of candidates on the basis of the option exercised by the candidates and publish in their website.
Provided that the Central Commission shall publish in their website the appropriate answers of the Questions for general information.
Provided further if more than one candidate obtain the same aggregate (total marks) the merit position of the candidates shall be determined according to their date of birth, i.e. candidates with earlier date of birth shall be preferred and if the aggregate and date of birth shall also be same, the candidates obtaining higher academic score shall be preferred and if the aggregate, date of birth and academic score shall be same, the candidates obtaining higher weightage in TET shall be preferred.
(7) The Central Commission shall publish such panel and waiting list of candidates in the website of the Commission as well as the Offices of the concerned Regional Commissions. A copy of the same will be submitted to the School Education Department and the Directorate of School Education for information.
13. Method of SLST for selection of candidates and preparation of panel for Teachers for Physical Education and Work Education
(1) The Central Commission shall arrange for proper custody of all online applications which may be received by it against the vacancies.
(2) The Central Commission after receiving application forms shall prepare list of eligible candidates for the purpose of preparation of a computer generated database of all the candidates.
(3) The admit cards for written examination shall be issued by the Central Commission by any mode as may be determined by the Central Commission.
(4) The Central Commission shall arrange written examination.
(5) The Central Commission shall determine the method of written examinations, contents of paper, duration of examination, time and venue of examination and other matters relating to such State Level Selection Test.
(6) The Central Commission shall decide the procedure and the manner of conducting the Selection Test.
(7) The admit cards for written examination shall be issued by the Central Commission by any mode as may be determined by the Central Commission.
(8) The Central Commission shall arrange written examination.
(9) After the evaluation of the OMR Sheet or answer-sheet of the written examination, the Central Commission shall prepare and publish the Interview List in their website with all details of the candidates to be called for personality test, category-wise on the basis of merit (Marks of written test, Academic and Professional Qualifications as mentioned in Part B and C of