24.06.2026 23 sdas WPA 20156 of 2023 Sweta Singha Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Siddhartha Sankar Mandal Ms. Sharmistha Dhar …. for the petitioner Mr. S. Mukherji, ld. AGP Ms. Mary Datta …. for the State Mr. Sunit Kumar Roy ….. for the SSC Mr. Shoham Sanyal ….. for the respondents no. 4 & 5 1. The affidavit of service, filed today, is taken on record. 2. The grievance of the petitioner that her application made sometime in 2021 was rejected by the school authorities on the ground that the applicant fell within the mischief of 10% Rule. The petitioner, however, submits that she was the only teacher applying for the transfer and was not covered by such Rule. 3. The second application made by the petitioner in the offline mode was not in the prescribed format and has, therefore, not been considered. 4. Since a long period of time has lapsed, the petitioner is directed to make a fresh application in 2 the prescribed format in the offline mode, since the “Utsashree Portal” is presently non-functioning. 5. The school authority will consider such application of the petitioner seeking transfer within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of the application from the petitioner. If found otherwise eligible, the said application will be considered in the offline mode and be duly forwarded by the school authorities to the concerned District Inspector of Schools. 6. With these aforesaid directions, the writ petition is disposed of. 7. There shall, however, be no order as to costs. 8. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties on priority basis. (Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)