It’s High Time To Say ‘No’ To A Discriminatory Quota System – OpEd

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Dr. Habib Siddiqui
July 13, 2024   

In recent days, Bangladesh is seeing student protests in many parts of the country, esp. in the university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30% of the well-paid and massively over-subscribed Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) posts are reserved for the family members of those who fought during the liberation war of 1971, and another 10% for women, 10% for districts, 5% for ethnic minorities and 1% for the disabled/handicaps. This leaves only 44% of the jobs reserved for merit to roughly 98% of the applicants.