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DHAKA, May 21, 2025 (BSS) - A High Court bench in a verdict has instructed the authorities concerned to begin recruitment process for posts of assistant librarian-cum-cataloger and librarian in 218 Dhakhil, Alim, Fazil and Kamil madrasahas across the country.

The bench comprising Justice Shashangka Shekhar Sarkar and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar handed down the judgment on Tuesday. 

A High Court bench on September 8 in 2021 following a writ petition issued a rule asking to know why the government decision for stopping the recruitment process for the posts of assistant librarian-cum-cataloger and librarian in 218 madrasahs of the country would not be declared as illegal and without lawful authority. 

The court after hearing the rule and making it absolute delivered the verdict.

Barrister ABM Siddiqur Rahman Khan and Barrister Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallab moved for the petitioners while Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Barrister Mehedi Hassan stood for the state.

The Technical and Madrasah wing of the education ministry on December 19, 2019 through a circular instructed the principals of different madrasahs to advertise for the recruitment of assistant librarian-cum- cataloger and librarian. The principals as per the government instruction gave advertisement in different national dailies for the recruitment and many candidates applied for those posts. 

But the same wing of the ministry on July 18, 2021 through another circular scrapped that posts and suspended the recruitment process and made it as assistant teacher (Library and Information Science) and lecturer (Librarian). The wing also instructed the National Teachers Recruitment Centre (NTRC) to include these two subjects in its 17th examination for new recruitment. As a result, the recruitment process of the writ petitioners was halted and they filed the writ challenging the second circular of the ministry.

Barrister Humayun Kabir Pallab, lawyer of the writ petitioners told the journalists that as the petitioners applied for those posts before the second circular so that the madrasah governing body can appoint them in line with the previous system. The circular of the NTRC would not be applicable for the writ petitioners.