HC stays recruitment process

The High Court yesterday stayed the process for appointment to 2,077 posts of medical technologists for the next three months.
In response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in three weeks why its advertisement for appointment to the posts should not be declared illegal.
The ad was published by the Directorate General of Health Services in the daily Jugantor on January 18.
It states that only candidates completing three years' diploma from the Institute of Health Technology under the State Medical Faculty of Bangladesh can apply.
Six candidates holding medical diploma under Bangladesh Technical Education Board filed the writ petition with the High Court on February 19 challenging the legality of the conditions.
Petitioners' counsels -- Mahbub Shafique and KM Hafizul Alam Hafiz -- told the court yesterday that the conditions were discriminatory because their clients cannot apply despite completing medical diploma under Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed stayed the effectiveness of the advertisement and issued the rule. Deputy Attorney General Mokhlesur Rahman represented the government.