Demonstration of the university students against the quota system The constitution ensures equal opportunities for all its citizens getting a job. As part of guaranting this right, the quota system had been created by the government in the past, so that a greater majority of people of the country are represented. It did not explain how that can be achieved. The Public Service Commission (PSC) is the only authorised body which frames the recruitment policy of the government and appoints civil servants by organising BCS exmaination every year. But unfortunately,this organisation did not earn good name in the past. Nor has it been able to improve its functions as expected by the general public. The mess in the preliminary selection of BCS in recent time can be a good example of a bad scenario. As a matter of the fact, the public administration is an important organ of the government through which it executes all its policies. Therefore, it is inextricably important for the government to ensure that the organisation is being operated efficiently. In order to achieve that, the government has to restructure the entire administration of the PSC as soon as possible. After the independence of Bangladesh, the colonial structure has not been changed in the civil service rather strengthened to a greater extent. Although,some initiatives took place to reform the system in the past, but they never saw any light. Now the entire structure of civil service has got to be changed, aligning to the people’s demands and global needs. We have to agree that some part of the recruitment procedures in the civil service have to be reformulated to remove the loopwholes that are still existing in the selection procedures. Research needs to be undertaken to find out the loopwholes and replace them by the refined ones. Until such time, the current quota system needs to be in place to ensure that the social and economic justice are made in the selection process of civil servants. Now it is our moral obligation to advise the university students to analyse the effects of abolition of quota system on the candidates who are and will be willing to sit for BCS examination in the coming years and beyond. In fact, the abolition of the system will as much increase the chance of meritorious graduates getting superior jobs in the government as depriving of a large number of mediocre graduates from availing of the same opportunities. In an indirect way, a large number of graduates (i.e. women, handicaps, ethnic minorities and inhabitants of disadvantaged areas) will never be able to get similar jobs in the future. In fact, the abolition of quota system is going to benefit only a few selective graduates at the cost of a great majority of graduates who also dream to have good jobs available in the government and to become well established in the society. It is hard to understand why many university students are still supporting the abolition of quota system without going deep into the mater. What remains to be seen here is whether they are demonstrating for their own interrests! Or has the issue been fabricated by some quarter to turn the young generation against the current government? It is good that the people have already understood the ill motives of those who were and are still playing behind the curtain to destablise the political situation of the country. The demonstration of university students against the quota system is to be seen as a self-defeating undertaking. It is no secret now that some quarters are and always will be trying to fish in the troubled water through instigating the university students aganst the quota system. The same group of people are still trying to use the caretaker government system to fulfil their ill design. In order to foil their plots, it is necessary to give a permanent shape of the quota system in the recruitment of the government jobs. We need to emphasise that the government can utilise the parliament in session to include the quota system in the constitution,so that the conspirators cannot easily change the system to undermine the interests of the freedom fighters and all disadvanged people in the future. Had this pro-people government taken initiative to incorporate this in the constitution, our generation and the next would have remebered this act with gratitude for many years to come. This act would transform the dream of Bangabandhu, Seikh Mujibur Rahman into reality – the dream which he had always dreamt that once Bangladesh would be a country, capable of ensuring social and economic justice for all of its citizens irrespective of their race,colour and creed.We have no other choice than becoming people - friendly should we love him and believe in his conviction. Dr faruque Mirza Advisor, Bangladesh Awami League, Belgium Ex President, Bangabandhu Parishad, Belgium
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:22:24 +0000
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