Govt issues gazette on reformed quota system in public service

The Public Administration Ministry on Tuesday issued a gazette notification on reformed quota system in public service following a recent verdict of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC).

As per the notification, the government has fixed 93 percent posts of the total jobs will be filled up from merit list while five percent quota has been kept for the children of Valiant Freedom Fighters', martyred Freedom Fighters and Biranganas, one percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for the people with disabilities and third gender.

The notification said if eligible candidates cannot be found from the quotas, the vacant posts will be filled up from the merit list. 

New quota system will be followed while recruiting employees in government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions, statutory bodies and different corporations in all grades for ensuring the policy of equity and the representation of underprivileged groups of society in the works of the republic.

It said the gazette notification of the Public Administration Ministry issued on October 4, 2018 has been repelled.

The notification will come into immediate effect. 

Source: BSS