Students on Sunday staged demonstration at Shahbagh intersection of Dhaka in demand of reforming quota system in government recruitment examinations.
Several hundreds of students mostly of Dhaka University (DU), under separate banners, took position on the road stretching from Shahbagh intersection to TSC of Dhaka University at 11:10am.
The demonstrators were seen carrying placards showing their five-point demand, reports UNB.
Their demands include:
- Introduction of unified age limit in government jobs
- Review of quota system in government recruitment process, including Bangladesh Civil Services (BCS) examination
- Stop taking benefit by job seekers under the same quota
- Filling vacant posts from merit list if the candidates from quota are not found and fixation of 10 per cent quota instead of existing 56 per cent.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in the area as the demonstration was going on till filing of the report around 12:35pm.