Quota reform committee holds first meeting

The seven-member committee formed “to review or reform or cancel” the quota system for the civil service sat for its first meeting on Sunday. 

The meeting held at the cabinet division with cabinet secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam in the chair.

After the meeting, Joint Secretary Abul Kashem Mohammad Mohiuddin of Public Administration Ministry told reporters that, they would study quota provisions in other countries to work out its ways of works.

Government on July 2, formed the committee led by cabinet secretary and asked it to report within 15 working days amid student agitation for reforming quota system that allowing the government to preserve 56 per cent posts in public service for different groups including freedom fighter’s children and their grandchildren, women, and the cross section of people.

Earlier in February, students of different public universities and jobseekers, under the banner of “Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad”, started a movement demanding reforms in the quota.

Amid countrywide agitation, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on April 11, announced the abolition all types of quotas in public jobs.