The shortage of teaching staff became evident in the West Bengal Madrasa Service Commission results, which were declared on Monday. The statistics revealed that for 1,422 seats advertised by the commission, only 991 candidates were selected.

As expected, most of the 431 seats lying vacant are for the science subjects and mathematics.

The problem lingers even after a dereservation policy was adopted for the appointment of teachers in the madrasas to solve the issue.

The state government had recently constituted the Madrasa Service Commission, a separate body for conducting the recruitments in madrasas in the state.

Although the government kept the recruitment of teachers out of the purview of reservation in madrasas — since they form the minority institutions — the problem here was the same as the School Service Commission.

Last week, when the results of School Service Commission were declared, about 3,099 seats — most of them from the reserved category, could not be filled up by the commission for science subjects.