Staff Reporter :
The students of different universities and colleges staged demonstration in their respective institutions and demanded reformation of quota system to recruit Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadres for government jobs at Shahbagh and across the country.
Currently, 44 per cent recruitment is based on merit while rest on quota system.
Almost 1000 students of different universities and colleges started their sit-in programmee at Shahbagh around 11.00 am. They carried placards with slogans for reforming the quota system. The protesters called off their programmee at 12.30 pm.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in the area.
Later, a four- member delegation went to Prime Minister Office to submit a memorandum of five points.
The students in their memorandum preferred the merit system to the quota system of recruitment. They called for reduction of quota system to permanent 10 percent in place of prevailing 56 per cent. In case of shortage of candidates under the quota system, meritorious students should be considered.
In Chittagong, around 300 students of Chittagong University has formed a human chain in front of Central
The students of different universities and colleges staged demonstration in their respective institutions and demanded reformation of quota system to recruit Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadres for government jobs at Shahbagh and across the country.
Currently, 44 per cent recruitment is based on merit while rest on quota system.
Almost 1000 students of different universities and colleges started their sit-in programmee at Shahbagh around 11.00 am. They carried placards with slogans for reforming the quota system. The protesters called off their programmee at 12.30 pm.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in the area.
Later, a four- member delegation went to Prime Minister Office to submit a memorandum of five points.
The students in their memorandum preferred the merit system to the quota system of recruitment. They called for reduction of quota system to permanent 10 percent in place of prevailing 56 per cent. In case of shortage of candidates under the quota system, meritorious students should be considered.
In Chittagong, around 300 students of Chittagong University has formed a human chain in front of Central
Shaheed Minar demanding the reformation of quota system on Sunday.
Meanwhile, thousands of Rajshahi University students formed a human chain on the Paris Road.
According to two clauses of the Article 29 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh:
(1) There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in respect of employment or office in the service of the Republic.
(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in respect of, any employment or office in the service of the Republic.
