IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Jay Sengupta WPA 5181 of 2024 Ranjit Pratihar Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

With WPA 5184 of 2024 Susabhan Singha Roy Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

With WPA 5188 of 2024 Shovan Maity Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

With WPA 5205 of 2024 Sudip Bag Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

With WPA 5215 of 2024 Krishna Sarkar V s.

The State of Wes t Bengal & Ors.

For the petitioner : Mr. Biswarup Biswas, Mr. Pradip Kumar Ghosh .....Advocates For the State in WPA 5181 of 2024 &

WPA 5205 of 2024 : Mr. Swapan Kr. Datta ld. AGP., Mr. Dipankar Das Gupta.

.....Advocates For the State in WPA 5188 of 2024 : Mr. Swapan Kr. Datta ld.AGP., Mr. Tapas Mandal.

.....Advocates For the State in WPA 5184 of 2024 : Mr. Gourav Das, Mr. Hemanta Kumar Das.

.....Advocates For the State in WPA 5184 of 2024: Mr. Pinaki Dhole, Ms. Tapati Samanta.

.....Advocates For the INC : Mr. Nilotpal Chatterjee.

.....Advocate For the WBNC : Mr. Abir Sarkar .....Advocate For the Vocational Council : Mr. Suman Dey .....Advocate Heard lastly on : 13.05.2025 Judgment on : 01.08.2025 Jay Sengupta, J:

1. As the five writ petitions pertain to the same question of law, they had been taken up for hearing together. Among other things, the petitioner prayed for direction upon the respondents to complete the registration for the session 2023-2026 in place of 2022-2025 and to allow the petitioners to continue their GNM course forthwith.

2. Learned counsels representing the petitioners submitted as follows. The petitioner WPA 5181 of 2024, who was being a regular class mode student, passed in (X+2) Level Higher Secondary (Vocational) Examination in the year 2022, by obtaining more than 40% marks in aggregate and more than 40% marks in English, as conducted by the West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development, in the discipline of Engineering and Technology, with the subjects English, Bengali, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and other vocation papers. The said Vocational Council was a recognised Board/Council in terms of the publication of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Board. The petitioner submitted his application, in terms of the Notification vide No. HNG/3M-37- 2020/1276 dated 22.09.2022, issued by the Director of health Services, West Bengal, before the respondent No. 4 for admission in GNM Nursing course for the session 2022-2025, having qualification as per i) the admission terms and conditions as published by the respondent No. 3, i.e., Indian Nursing Council, specially having science subject in (X+2) H.S. (Vocational) curriculum, ii) qualification in 4(i) of section 3.1 of the bulletin of WBJEEB as to “must pass „10+2‟ examination from any recognised Board in regular class mode with at least 40% marks in aggregate and 40% marks in English.”

After verification of the application and also the qualification of the petitioner, the respondent No. 4 admitted the petitioner in GNM Nursing Course for the session 2022-2025 by accepting the fees for the course and thereafter, he had been regularly attending the said course. The respondent No. 2 i.e., West Bengal Nursing Council, however, did not complete the resignation of the petitioner without assigning any reason for the session 2022-2025. Be it mentioned that the respondent No. 2 registered students from Arts or Commerce streams, but the respondent No. 2 refused to compete the registration, when the petitioner passed H.S. (Vocational) course with science subjects in regular mode class system. The respondent No. 2 completed registration of several admitted students who were from Arts or Commerce streams, i.e., without having science subject in terms of the Notification vide No. HNG/3M-37-2020/1276 dated 22.09.2022, but the registration of the petitioner had not been given, hence, this writ petition. Furthermore, when the respondent No. 2, did not register the name of the petitioner, then with