Students and jobseekers faced off with police at Shahbagh in Dhaka today as the protesters marched to the intersection for their Bangla Blockade programme to protest reinstatement of quotas in government jobs

Some demonstrators trying to prolong movement by holding general people hostage, says BCL president

DMP Additional Commissioner (Crime and Ops) KH Mahid Uddin said today that they would take legal action if quota protesters continued to block the roads

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan today said the door of the court is always open for students who are running the movement against the quota system in civil service

The ongoing student protest against the quota system in government jobs caused severe disruptions in Dhaka and other parts of the country, leaving people in severe misery.

A student blockade at the Science Lab intersection in the capital this morning caused severe suffering for patients and people on their way to various hospitals in Green Road and Dhanmondi areas

Students and job seekers who are protesting the reinstatement of the quota system in government jobs said they would stay on the roads until the government forms a commission regarding the reform of the quota system

Quota system won't be effective for four weeks as a result of status quo, legal experts say

In the public sector in Bangladesh, job reservations for specific disadvantaged groups have existed since independence. The most recent quota system, which included provisions for up to 56 percent of jobs going to those who fall under various quotas, was abolished for first- and second-class jobs in 2018 following a government circular. Previous quota systems, however, reserved an even higher percentage of jobs for various groups

The government yesterday issued a circular abolishing the quota system for class-I and class-II jobs in the civil service amid demonstrations for reinstating quota for the freedom fighters' descendants and indigenous communities.

The cabinet has approved a high-powered government committee's decision to abolish the existing quota system for class-I and class-II jobs in the civil service.

A high-powered government committee has recommended abolishing the quota system for class-I and class-II jobs in civil service.