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Government jobs provide better pay and benefits than private sector jobs in Bangladesh, which creates demand for government jobs. [2] Students in Bangladesh protested in 2013 , 2018 , and 2024 against the quota system and have argued that talented candidates were not being recruited due to the quota.
The protest began in June 2024, in response to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh reinstating a 30% quota for descendants of freedom fighters, reversing the government decision made in response to the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Students began to feel like they have a limited opportunity based on merit.
Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of ...
WHAT IS THE QUOTA SYSTEM? Introduced in 1972, Bangladesh's quota system has gone through several changes since. When it was abolished in 2018, 56% of government jobs were blocked under various quotas.
The Government of Bangladesh and Others was a case brought before the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The writ petition was filed three years after the Government of Bangladesh , amid the 2018 quota reform movement , issued a circular declaring the existing quotas for descendants of 1971 Liberation War ...
At the heart of the demonstrations is a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
In 2018, a mass movement was held in Bangladesh demanding quota reform in government jobs, led by the General Students' Rights Protection Council. The main objective of this movement was to reform the ongoing quota system in Class I and II government jobs.
The government previously halted it in 2018 following mass student protests, but in June, Bangladesh’s High Court reinstated the quotas and set off a new round of protests. Ruling on an appeal, the Supreme Court ordered that the veterans’ quota be cut to 5%, with 93% of jobs to be allocated on merit.