Dhaka: Around one thousand job seekers staged demonstration at Shahbagh intersection in the city on Sunday morning demanding reforms of quota system in government recruitment examinations, including BCS.

Several hundreds of students mostly of Dhaka University (DU) under separate banners, including General Students’ Rights Protection Mancha (Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Sangrokkon Mancha), General Students’ Rights Protection Council, took position on the road stretching from Shahbagh intersection to TSC of Dhaka University at 11:10am.

The demonstrators were seen carrying placards showing their five-point demand that include introduction of unified age limit in government jobs, review of quota system in government recruitment process, including Bangladesh Civil Services (BCS) examination, stopping to taka benefit by job seekers under the same quota, filling vacant posts from merit list if the candidates from quota are not found and fixation of 10 percent quota instead of existing 56 percent.

Huge law enforcers were deployed in the area as the demonstration was going on till filing of the report around 12:35pm.