Bangladesh axes job quotas after dozens die in protests
The Independent|July 22, 2024
The Supreme Court in Bangladesh has scrapped most of the quotas for government jobs that led to mass student protests and saw more than 114 people killed in the country's worst unrest for a decade.
SHWETA SHARMA
Bangladesh axes job quotas after dozens die in protests

The protests have been steadily growing since last month after a lower court order reinstated a controversial quota system reserving up to 30 per cent of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971.

The Sheikh Hasina government scrapped the quota system in 2018 but a court ordered that it be reinstated. Yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed that order and directed that 93 per cent of government jobs will be open to candidates on the basis of merit, without quotas.

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