Department: School Education
Subject:
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
SCHOOL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Secondary Branch
No. 165-SE(S)/1S-26/2010 (Part-II) dated the 3rd March, 2015
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the power conferred by clause (d) of sub-Section (2), read with sub-section (1) of 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) Rules, 2007, issued with this Department Notification No. 1228-SE(S)/1S-20/2007 dated the 21st September, 2007, published in Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, Part-1, dated the 26th September, 2007, 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, namely:-
Rules
1. Short title and commencement
(1) These rules may be called the West Bengal School Service Commission (State Level Selection Test for Appointment to the posts of Teachers) Rules, 2015.
(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) “Central Commission” means the West Bengal Central School Service Commission constituted under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Act;
(c) “Category” means reservation category, gender category, medium of instruction category, subject category, post category.
(d) “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 may determine equivalence of any subject vis-vis the concerned subject, and may, by order, declare that subject as equivalent of concerned subject;
(e) “Degree or Diploma” means,-
(i) Bachelor with Honours or Master’s degree, or any diploma, obtained through regular course as a regular or private or external candidate from a University, recognised by the University Grants Commission,
(ii) Bachelor with Honours or Master’s degree, or any diploma, obtained, through distance education system or correspondence course from a University recognised by the University Grants Commission,
(iii) For Physical Education and Work Education degree, or any diploma, obtained, through distance education system or correspondence course from a University recognised by the University Grants Commission;
(f) “Honours/ Post Graduate vacancy” means a vacancy for the post of a teacher in a School against which only the person holding a Bachelor degree with Honours or a Post graduate degree can be appointed;
(g) “Panel” means a list published by the Commission for Schools containing the names of candidates equal to number of vacancies in respect of each category declared for a Selection Test found fit for appointment strictly in order of merit;
(h) “Physical Education/Work Education vacancy” means vacancy for the post of a teacher in a school for the purpose of pertaining teaching in Physical Education/ Work Education.
(i) “Post” means a whole-time sanctioned post of –
(i) Assistant Teacher against Honours/ Postgraduate vacancy in School
(ii) Assistant Teacher against Work Education/ Physical Education
(iii) Headmaster/ Headmistress in Jr. High School
(iv) Headmaster/ Headmistress in High/Higher Secondary School;
(j) “Reallocation of post” means the service of a teacher withdrawn from a school with or without post and the service reallocated to any other school.
(k) “Regional Commission” means the West Bengal Regional School Service Commission constituted under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Act;
(l) “Reserved Category” means category of reservation in respect of Schedule Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, Physically Handicapped candidates;
(m) “Schedule” means Schedules appended to these rules;
(n) “State” means the State of West Bengal;
(o) “State Government” means the Government of West Bengal in the School Education Department;
(p) “State Level Selection Test” means the test to be conducted by the School Service Commission for recruitment of teachers of the categories stated in this rules within its jurisdiction of the State without excluding or excluding any area or school/schools;
(q) “sub-rule” means sub-rule of a rule in which the word or expression occurs;
(r) “Teacher” means Assistant Teacher in Honours/ Post Graduate category, Assistant Teacher in Work Education and Physical Education includes Headmaster, Headmistress of Junior High/High/Higher Secondary schools;
(s) “vacancy” means a vacancy in the post of a teacher caused by
(i) creation of a new post,
(ii) superannuation of a teacher,
(iii) death of a teacher.
(iv) resignation tendered by a teacher,
(v) transfer or reallocation of service of a teacher,
(vi) removal or dismissal of a teacher, or
(vii) any other reason, as the State Government may, by order, determine;
(t) “waiting list” means
(1) category-wise list of rest of the candidates qualified after personality test but not included in the panel.
(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 post mentioned in column (2) of Schedule I shall be made by selection (direct recruitment) through the West Bengal School Service Commission in the manner as specified in Rule 7.
4. Names of post, qualification and age
(1) The name of the post, and its qualification shall, subject to rule 5, be such as specified respectively in columns (2) and (3) of Schedule I:
(2) The age-limit for the post referred to in column (2) shall be such as specified in column (4) of Schedule I:
(3) The State Government, may, by notification earmark upto 10% of the total posts with a view to provide adequate representation of the candidates of various categories without disturbing the 100 point roster as notified by the State Government from time to time.
Provided that the person who is already in service save and except disqualifications as stated in sub-rule (4) of Rule 6 on the approved post of Teacher or non-teaching staff of any School may apply for the post of Assistant Teacher with maximum age of 55 years as on 1st January of the year of advertisement.
5. Additional essential qualification of candidate
A candidate willing to be selected as a Teacher in any School 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 any of the Secondary or Higher Secondary or Graduation level –
(a) at Secondary level of the Board or equivalent; or
(b) at Higher Secondary level of the Council or equivalent; or
(c) at any subsequent higher level of education in that language paper.
6. Disqualification
(1) No person shall be eligible for selection for appointment to the post of Teacher in any School within its territorial jurisdiction unless he is a citizen of India.
(2) No person shall be eligible for selection for appointment to the post of Teacher in any School if he has accepted or offered dowry in any form at the time of his marriage or his son’s or daughter’s marriage.
(3) Any person who is under suspension from any institution or removed from service from any institution shall not be eligible for selection for appointment in the post of teacher. A declaration to that effect is to be submitted by the candidate during verification of academic certificates.
(4) Any in-service honours or postgraduate teacher shall not be eligible for selection for appointment to the post of a honours or postgraduate teacher in any School under these Rules.
7. Manner of selection of Teacher
(1) Selection to the post of the Teacher shall be made on the basis of the results of the State Level Selection Test comprising written examination conducted by the Central Commission, evaluation of academic qualifications and personality tests of the candidates in the manner as specified in Schedule II.
(2) 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 for reasons to be recorded in writing.
8. Information regarding vacancies
(1) The District Inspectors of Schools (Secondary Education) shall prepare a report regarding the number of vacancies in approved posts, subject wise, medium wise, gender wise and reservation category wise for the post of Assistant Teacher and medium wise and post wise for the post of Headmaster/Headmistress, which exists or is expected to occur within the 1st day of January of the year specified for advertisement and shall furnish the same to the Directorate of School Education.
(2) On receipt of report under sub-rule (1), Directorate of School Education with due approval of the Government shall send the subject wise, medium wise, gender wise and reservation category wise compiled vacancy report for the post of Assistant Teacher to the Central Commission and medium wise and post wise for the post of Headmaster/Headmistress 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, thirty days before the date of publication of the advertisement inviting application; and
b) Secondly fifteen days before the date of publication of the result of the written examination.
Explanation- For removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that only the vacancy reported within the time specified in sub-rule (2) shall be considered for recommendation by the Central Commission for the particular State Level Selection Test and any vacancy reported thereafter shall be taken into account in the next State Level Selection Test.
9. Advertisement
(1) The Central Commission shall, on receipt of the report of vacancies under rule 8, issue an advertisement through newspapers in the State in English, Bengali or in any other languages, if necessary, and also through the website of the Commission.
(2) Such advertisement shall be issued specifying the vacancies, qualifications, age as on the 1st 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 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 post of Assistant Teacher or Headmaster/Headmistress, as the case may be, publish a tentative number of vacancy at the time of inviting application for State Level Selection Test by declaring the tentative vacancies that have been reported under clause (a) of sub-rule (2) of rule 8 and a second vacancy list 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 (2) of rule 8.
10. Form of application
(1) The form of application for State Level Selection Test for appointment of the post shall be such, as may be determined by the Central Commission from time to time and may be saleable.
(2) The form of application may be published in the Newspapers or the Commission’s Website as may be determined by the Central Commission.
(3) The price of the form of application shall be such as may be fixed by the Central Commission.
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. Selection of candidates and preparation of panel for the posts of Assistant Teachers
(1) The Secretary of Central Commission shall arrange for proper custody of all forms of applications which may be received by it against the vacancies.
(2) (a) The Central Commission after receiving application forms shall prepare the list of eligible candidates for the purpose of preparation of a computer generated database of all the candidates.
(b) The admit cards for written examination shall be issued by the Central Commission by Speed post or in such other mode as may be determined by the Central Commission from time to time and a candidate can also download admit card from the website of the Commission.
(3) The Central Commission shall arrange written examination.
(4) The Central Commission shall determine number of papers for written examinations, contents of each paper, duration of examination and other matters relating to the State Level Selection Test.
(5) The Central Commission shall decide the procedure and the manner of conducting the State Level Selection Test.
(6) After the evaluation of the answer sheet of the written examination, the Central Commission shall prepare a subject-wise, medium-wise, category-wise and gender-wise list of the candidates, who shall be qualified for personality test on the basis of the marks obtained by him in the written examination and evaluation of academic qualification (to be calculated on the basis of statement made in regard to academic qualification by a candidate at the time of submission of the application form) taken together:
Provided that the number of qualified candidate to be called for the personality test shall not exceed 1.1 times the number of actual vacancies published at the time of declaration of the result of written examination under clause (b) of sub-rule (3) of rule 8:
Provided further that if the marks at the last position of the qualified list of candidates shall be same for more than one candidate, all such candidates at that position shall be called for the personality test.
(7) After preparation of the list of qualified candidate, the Central Commission shall call the candidates for personality test through registered post or speed post mentioning the date, time and venue of personality test:
Provided that the candidate can also obtain such information through the website of the Commission and from the Offices of Central Commission and the Regional Commissions.
(8) The Central Commission shall, on the basis of the marks obtained in the written examination, evaluation of the academic qualification as stated in sub-rule (6) and marks obtained in the personality test, all added together, prepare
(a) a panel of candidates found fit for appointment to the posts of Assistant Teacher, strictly in order of merit under a specific category and each such panel shall include names equal to the number of vacancies referred to in sub-rule (1) of rule 8, and
(b) a waiting list containing names of rest of the candidates appeared in the personality test and not disqualified and subsequent vacancies, if any, reported under clause (b) of subrule (3) of rule 8 may be filled up from the suitable candidates available in the waiting list till the panel remains valid:
Provided that there may be separate medium-wise, subject-wise, category-wise or gender-wise sets sub-panel or waiting list, as may be necessary, for Honours/ Post graduate category and Physical Education, Work Education vacancies, as may be decided by the Central Commission from time to time.
(9) 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 marks in written examination shall be preferred.
(10) 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 Directorate of School Education.
13. Selection of candidates and preparation of panel for the post of Headmaster/ Headmistress
(1) The Central School Service Commission shall, on receipt of the information about vacancies of posts of Headmaster/Headmistress, advertise in terms of rule 9, post wise with qualification, age and other requirements as per Schedule I.
(2) (a) The Central Commission shall, after receiving application forms, prepare a list of eligible candidates for the purpose of preparation of a computer generated database of all the candidates.
(b) The admit cards for written examination shall be issued by the Central Commission by speed post or in such other mode as may be determined by the Central Commission from time to time and a candidate may download admit card from the website of the Commission.
(3) The Central Commission shall arrange written examination.
(4) The Central Commission shall determine number of papers for written examinations, contents of each paper, duration of examination and other matters relating to the State Level Selection Test.
(5) The Central Commission shall decide the procedure and the manner of conducting the State Level Selection Test, and shall issue detailed instructions in this regard in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the rules made thereunder:
(6) After the evaluation of the answer sheet of the written examination, Central Commission shall prepare a medium-wise list of the candidates, who shall be qualified for personality test on the basis of the marks obtained by him in the written examination, evaluation of academic and professional qualification, and teaching experience (to be calculated on the basis of statement made in these regard by a candidate at the time of submission of the application form) taken together:
Provided that the number of qualified candidates to be called for the personality test shall not exceed 1.5 times the number of actual vacancies published at the time of declaration of the result of written examination under clause (b) of sub-rule (3) of rule 8:
Provided further that if the marks of the last position of the qualified list of candidates shall be same for more than one candidate all such candidates obtaining same marks at that position shall be called for the personality test.
(7) After preparation of the list of qualified candidates, the Central Commission shall call the candidates for personality test through speed post or any other manner mentioning the date, time and venue of Personality Test:
Provided that the candidate may obtain such information through the website of the Commission and from the Offices of Central Commission and the Regional Commissions.
(8) The Central Commission shall, on the basis of the marks obtained in the written examination, evaluation of the academic qualification and teaching experience, if any, as stated in sub-rule (6), and marks obtained in the personality test, all added together, prepare strictly in order of merit-
(a) a panel of candidates found fit for recommendation, and each such panel shall include names equal to the number of vacancies referred to in sub-rule (1) of rule 8, and
(b) a waiting list containing names of rest of the candidates appeared in the personality test and not disqualified and vacancies which could not be filled up due to various reasons may be filled up from the suitable candidates available in the waiting list till the waiting list remains valid.
(9) If more than one candidate obtain the same aggregate (total marks)