22nd April, 2026 (AK/TN) AD- 67 W.P.A 9142 of 2025 Paramita Nath Vs. The State of West Bengal and others Mr. Shuvro Prakash Lahiri Mr. Rajesh Naskar Mr. Ankan Mondal …for the petitioner. Mr. Sunit Kr. Roy …for the SSC. Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharyya Mr. Bibek Dutta ...for WBBSE. 1. Affidavit of service, as filed, be kept with the record. 2. In spite of service, the School Authority is not represented. 3. The petitioner is an Assistant Teacher in the subject Bengali (pass) at Bajitpur High School, North 24 Parganas. 4. The petitioner has made an application for transfer on own seeking on distance ground. 5. The said application is pending. 6. The respondent no. 6 is directed to consider such application and if found eligible, shall issue the requisite ‘No Objection Certificate’ and forward the same to the respondent no. 5 by 15.05.2026. 2 7. If the application is allowed, the School Authority will take all consequential steps to expedite the matter. 8. The suspension of ‘Utsashree Portal’ will not be an impediment for the concerned authority to consider the application for transfer of the petitioner. The same shall be considered in an offline mode. 9. With these aforestated directions, the writ petition is disposed of. 10. There shall, however, be no order as to costs. 11. Urgent photostate certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties on usual undertaking. (Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)