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Bangladesh top court scraps quota
Updated On: 22 July, 2024 09:39 AM IST | Dhaka | Agencies
Weeks of protests across the country leaves scores killed
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Ahsanul Karim (centre), the petitioners’ lawyer, addresses the media after Bangladesh’s Supreme Court verdict in Dhaka on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, in a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and demonstrators that have killed scores of people.
Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30 per cent of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of Independence in 1971. The government previously halted it in 2018 following mass student protests, but in June, Bangladesh’s High Court reinstated the quotas and set off a new round of protests.
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