Kolkata, Oct. 8 -- The West Bengal government will introduce a bill in the state legislative assembly, tentatively after the Durga Puja, to curtail the powers of the state Madrasah Service Commission set up by the Left Front and empower the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to recruit teachers for madrasahs alongside other state-run or state-aided institutions, officials aware of the development said on Thursday.

"The decision was taken by the state cabinet in September and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced it in public on October 6. He said the Madrasah Service Commission would be merged with the WBSSC," a bureaucrat said, requesting anonymity.

After coming to power in May, the Bharatiya Janata Party government took...