Dipankar Datta, J. - (1.) THE petitioner and the sixth respondent were contenders for engagement as Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife in Juranpur Health Sub -Centre under Domkal Block, Murshidabad. They had responded to an advertisement inviting applications issued sometime in 2006.
(2.) IN terms of the applicable guidelines for engagement as Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife, selection shall be strictly on merit based on the marks obtained by the candidates in the Madhyamik or equivalent examination. The petitioner appeared in the High Madrasah Examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education. In so far as the compulsory subjects are concerned, she obtained 457 marks out of 1000 i.e. 45.7%. The sixth respondent took the Madhyamik Examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and in the compulsory subjects, she obtained 425 marks out of 900 i.e. 47.22%.
(3.) THE Selection Committee, based on the marks obtained in the compulsory subjects by the petitioner and the sixth respondent, selected the latter for engagement as Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife.;