The West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission (WBMSC) announced the resolution of the Group-D recruitment process, which had remained entangled in legal and procedural complexities for nearly 15 years. The Division Bench judgment of the Calcutta High Court dated 10 September has conclusively settled all disputes, providing a clear path forward for thousands of deserving candidates and institutions.
The journey began with the March 2010 advertisement for 272 tentative vacant posts of Group-D. The recruitment process was designed in three stages—Preliminary Screening Test, Written Examination, and Personality Test. In the first phase, 1,43,303 candidates appeared for the Preliminary Examination.
Following evaluation, around 26445 candidates qualified, but later it was discovered that OMR sheets of 73,978 eligible candidates had been left unevaluated due to a technical error. This critical issue created a severe bottleneck.
Compounding matters, the constitutional validity of the WBMSC was challenged in various courts between 2013 and 2020, leading to a prolonged deadlock. During this time, litigation moved between the High Court and the Supreme Court, further delaying the process. The outbreak of COVID-19 created additional obstacles, forcing repeated postponements.
Determined to resolve this decade-long crisis, the government, the MAME minister as well as the MAME department, undertook an unprecedented effort. WBMSC left no stone unturned to correct the technical lapses transparently and lawfully. To address the OMR issue, the commission conducted a written examination in September 2024 for the, 73,978 left-out candidates.