Siliguri, Nov. 7 -- West Bengal Education Minister Dipak Kumar Barman on Saturday said that the preliminary merit list for recruitment to Group C and Group D posts in schools had raised doubts over the caste certificates of some candidates, as their surnames did not appear to match their claimed Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories.
Speaking to reporters in Siliguri, Barman said that the department had noticed certain discrepancies in the list.
Citing an example, he said that a candidate with the surname Chakraborty had been placed in the SC category, raising suspicion.
He clarified that neither the School Education Department nor the School Service Commission had the authority to determine whether an SC or ST certific...