After thousands of students staged countrywide protests against what they call a biased system, Bangladesh’s leading court on Wednesday temporarily suspended limits for desired government jobs, according to professionals.
The quota program allocates hundreds of thousands of government jobs, totaling more than half of well-paid and severely oversubscribed legal services positions, to specific groups, including those who are children of emancipation heroes.
Students earlier this month staged demonstrations on Wednesday that blocked bridges and railroad lines and demanded a merit-based program.
” We will not transfer to rooms until our desire is satisfied,” protest leader Rasel Ahmed of Chittagong University told AFP.
The limit system was abolished in 2018 after months of protests, but reinstated in June by Dhaka’s High Court, sparking indignation from students.
Lawyer Shah Monjurul Hoque, who represents two kids and wants to end the quota system, claimed that the Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended that purchase for a fortnight.
Hoque informed AFP that Obaidul Hassan, the chief justice, had also requested that students come back to school.
Students ‘ organizations continued to obstruct important railroad and highway networks, bringing traffic flow in much of Dhaka and several important places to a halt.
” This ( court ) order is temporary. We want a lasting executive order from the state, saying that the restrictions are abolished, except some limits for the handicapped and minority”, said Parvez Mosharraf, a pupil at Dhaka University.
Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar saw the end of coach services connecting the money to northeastern Bangladesh as a result of a large number of students who dumped wood logs on a railroad track.
– ‘ Constrained number of jobs ‘-
The quota system allocates 10 % of government posts to women, 10 % to residents of particular districts, and 30 % to children of those who fought for Bangladesh’s independence in 1971.
Students argued that only the employment limits that support ethnic minorities and the disabled should be in place, which accounts for 6 % of employment.
” We do n’t also want the job quotas for women because women are no longer lagging behind”, female student Meena Rani Das, 22, told AFP.
” Ladies are marching forward with their skills. However, the quota system is removing our right and creating obstacles.
Critics claim that the program benefits the children of pro-government organizations, who support Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was Bangladesh’s foundation head.
Hasina, 76, won her third consecutive public vote in January, in a ballot without real antagonism parties, with a widespread ban and a big assault against her political opponents.
Critics accuse Bangladeshi authorities of rubber-stamping choices made by her state.
Hasina has condemned the demonstrations, saying the issue had been settled by the judge.
” Students are wasting their time”, Hasina said Sunday, adding there was” no justification for the anti-quota movement”.
On Wednesday, thousands of students threw up barriers across important intersections in Dhaka, as well as blocking major thoroughfares connecting the city’s money to other cities, according to authorities.
Hemayetul Islam, assistant police chief in the northern area of Rajshahi said that “at least 200 kids” blocked the bridge to Dhaka.
Due to this quota system, brilliant students at Chittagong University can no longer find the jobs they want.
You work hard, but you soon learn that there are only a select few positions open, she continued.
