Dhaka: Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has taken an initiative to complete all processes of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination within one year while it now usually takes two years.  

‘We are trying to complete the entire process of a BCS examination - from issuing circular to publish results— within one year . . . We hope the process of 40th BCS exam will be completed within a year,’ PSC Chairman Muhammed Sadique told BSS.  

Sadique said PSC was now developing a search engine which would process the merit and quota list within shortest possible time.  

He said the statutory body by now took several steps to quicken the process to accept applications and issue admit cards online.  

Supplementing Saddique, PSC member Abdul Jabbar Khan said 70% works for developing the software for the search engine was already completed process which would help prepare the merit list within seven days, while ‘the process now takes nearly two and half months’.  

He said under the initiative PSC was also developing software to prepare questions from a question bank within one day and ‘If we can prepare questions and merit list through automation, it will reduce 5 to 6 months of total examination process.’   

Khan said PSC was also planning to get examined answer sheets calling in examiners at the PSC headquarters with an idea that they would stay in PSC throughout the day.