BANGLADESHI STUDENTS PROTEST QUOTA SYSTEM FOR GOVERNMENT JOBS > 자유게시판

DHAKA, July 12 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Students in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country have been staging protests against a recruitment system for government jobs, reported Xinhua.

Students on Thursday marched and blocked busy intersections across the country, causing traffic disruption for Top World News Today the fourth day, demanding reforms to the government jobs policy that offers 56 per cent quota.

The daylong movement began Thursday morning and continued until dusk.

The blockade, particularly in the areas surrounding colleges and universities across the country, has created severe traffic congestion.

"As part of the programme, all highways and railways across the country will be blocked Thursday," Nahid Islam, a Dhaka University student and an organiser of the movement, told a press conference in Dhaka on Wednesday.

He said the "Bangla Blockade" will continue until their demands are met.

The protesting students demand that the "discriminator" quota system in all government jobs has to be abolished and as per the constitution quota will exist for the backward section at a reasonable level through the passage of law in the parliament.