Throughout 2022, West Bengal has been in the national headlines over a number of financial scams. However, according to academicians and representatives from civil society, the most heinous among all the scams is the one related to the .
Besides former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, two other arrests by the central agencies in connection with the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam have shaken the academic circles of the .
The first arrest is that of the former West Bengal Board of School Education (WBBSE) president, Kalyanmoy Gangopadhyay by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths. Since the day of his arrest, academicians and opposition parties say that this development has really tainted the rich heritage of West Bengal s academic standards, considering that the marksheets and certificates of the first board examination in the state, Madhyamik, carry the signatures of the WBBSE president.
The names of heavyweight leaders and ministers of the TMC have already been implicated in multiple corruption cases in the state. Anubrata Mondal was arrested in a case of cow smuggling. Former state education minister Partha Chatterjee and his Intimate Friend Arpita Mukherjee have been arrested in the SSC recruitment corruption case.