Committee formed to report on PSC quota system
A two-member committee headed by Regulatory Reform Commission (RRC) Chairman Dr Akbar Ali Khan has been formed to look into quota system under the Public Service Commission (PSC) and submit a report on it soon.
Former secretary Rakib Uddin Khan is on the committee as its member.
Meanwhile, students of Dhaka University (DU) are now going on with various programmes demanding abolition of the quota system in which recruitment to 55 percent posts is not based on merit.
They will form a human chain in front of Aparajeyo Bangla on the campus and submit memorandums to the president, chief adviser, army chief, PSC chairman and establishment secretary today to press home their demand.
Following the committee report, the PSC will discuss it with experts, top officials of the caretaker government, students and journalists, PSC sources said.
The committee will get World Bank assistance in its operation.
Meanwhile, leaders of Fair BCS Movement at a press conference yesterday at DU Journalists Association office urged the government to abolish quota system immediately.
Bangladesh Chhatra Union demanded steps for curtailing or reforming the existing non-merit quota.
But Bangladesh Chhatra League demanded retaining the present quota system.
Forty-five percent of public servants are selected on the basis of merit in the existing system. And the others -- both for cadre and non-cadre jobs -- include 30 percent from the quota for freedom fighters or their offspring, 10 percent from women's quota, 10 percent from that for residents of certain districts and five percent from the quota for indigenous people.
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