TDS Desk:

Students Saturday blocked the road in the capital’s Shahbagh demanding the age limit for applying for government jobs should be made a minimum of 35 years as per international standards.

The mass gathering started in front of Shahbagh National Museum at 11 am on Saturday (September 7). Job aspirants from all over the country are participating in it.

Expressing solidarity with the rally, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convenor of Nagorik Oikya, said that “it would be like a dictionary” to talk about the number of irregularities in the recruitment of government jobs in Bangladesh. “There is no account of the number of temporary appointments when one can be kicked out after humiliation. There is no opportunity to take legal action against these,” he mentioned.

“The movement we did was not only a movement to overthrow the government,” Mahmudur Rahman Manna said. “We have said that it is a movement to change the country, a movement to change misrule.”

The main goal of our movement was to remove the discrimination from the country. The Interim Government is trying to handle everything nicely, Nagorik Oikya also said. “I think our country is changing.”

The protesting job seekers said that “the age limit for applying for jobs in around 162 countries of the world is at least 35 years, some of them are open (no age limit)”. The developed countries in the world, including India, have done a lot of research and made the age limit for job applications a minimum of 35 years as per international standards. But we only have 30 years. We do not accept this discrimination in new Bangladesh.