# The present quota system has been alleged to deprive many meritorious students from getting jobs in the Bangladesh public service.
General students all over the country have been protesting it saying this present quota system should be reformed including a reduction in the number of quota-based government jobs, and merit-based recruitment in vacant posts in case of unavailability of eligible candidates for quota-based jobs, and same age limit for all job seekers.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced to abolish all sorts of quota privileges in the public service amid students’ nationwide demonstration demanding reforms in the recruitment system.
“The quota system will be scrapped as the students do not want it,” the premier said while addressing at the parliament this afternoon.
The prime minister’s announcement came amid demonstration of students across the country demanding reformation of the quota system. The students of public and private universities across Bangladesh have been demonstrating to press home their demand since Sunday.
*Sheikh Hasina however said the government will make a special arrangement for ethnic minorities and physically challenged people in the public service recruitment system.
“If the quota system is reformed, another group will come up with demand for quota reform again. So, the quota system should be abolished, I think,” she said replying to a supplementary question by Awami League lawmaker Jahangir Kabir Nanak in the House.
She also urged the students to return their classes withdrawing the demonstration.*
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