Counselling for appointing the heads of 2,244 government-aided secondary and Higher Secondary schools is set to start on Thursday.
Hours after Calcutta High Court modified it’s earlier interim order and gave the West Bengal School Service Commission the liberty to start allotting the posts to the selected candidates, the commission issued a notification on Tuesday night announcing that the process would start on Thursday.
“We want to complete the counselling within five days,” commission chairman Saumitra Sarkar told Metro on Wednesday. “The posts of headmaster and headmistress in 2,244 schools have been lying vacant for a long time. The vacancies will be filled within five days.”
The state government wants the new heads to take over at the earliest because most posts have been lying vacant for more than four years. Many schools had complained about problems they had been facing in the absence of headmasters or headmistresses.