By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,
Kolkata: West Bengal Madrasa Service Commission will have to issue appointment letters to the 282 persons in Clerk and Librarian posts for Government aided madrasas of West Bengal within six week, after the intervention by the Calcutta High Court.
The final result for the vacancies have been out for over a year now. In fact preliminary examinations for the vacant posts of clerks and librarians was held 21 October, 2010 and mains examination was held on 29 May of 2011.
Counseling process had begun on 27 May, 2012 that finalised 193 candidates for the posts of clerks and 89 candidates for librarian posts. However, Mamata Banerjee led TMC government cancelled the result as the process had begun during the earlier Left Front government, and there were fears of manipuplations. . They were hence not issued appointment letters forcing them to file a plea at the Calcutta High Court.
On 11 April, yearlier this year 89 qualified candidates filed a case in the Calcutta High Court against West Bengal Madrasa Service Commission of Government of West Bengal.
The lawyer of the petitioner Subrata Mukherjee infromed that Justice Debashis Kar Gupta has directed the West Bengal Madrasa Service Commission to issue appointment letterss.
After the High Court order, on behalf of West Bengal Madrasa Service Commission, Lawyer Ekramul Bari told the court that they will abide by the order, but the process of appointments can be completed only after the Panchayat elections. The court hence allowed six weeks time to the government.
Candidates expressed their happiness as they accused the TMC government of discriminations for political vendetta. According to sources in the Commission the said posts are vacacant for years now.
