India, April 4 -- A large number of schools across West Bengal faced a crisis on Friday as 25,752 teachers and Group C and D employees, who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court verdict in the bribe-for-job case, stopped coming to the institutions, people familiar with the matter said.

Their absence affected scores of junior-secondary, secondary and higher secondary schools - many of them are holding class examinations - which had to grapple with the crisis with no immediate solution coming from the state education department.

At Bansberia Ganges High School in Hooghly district, head master Vishal Tiwari told reporters that the school lost 15 of its 41 staff members due to the verdict.

"Three life science and two mathematics teac...