28th BCS Exam

Aggrieved docs demand jobs

9 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

A group of aggrieved doctors, who passed the 28th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination, yesterday demanded immediate appointment to the vacant health cadre posts. They called for relaxing quota reservation system in the 28th BCS, as there was no such provision at its circular. The doctors placed the demands at a press conference at the National Press Club in the city. Reading out a written statement, Dr Al Mahmud Lemon, one of the organisers, said 480 physicians were not given jobs by the Public Service Commission (PSC) despite they have successfully passed the written test and viva voce of the 28th BCS.There are still more than 1,800 vacant health cadre posts across the country. The government plans to appoint physicians on an ad hoc basis to fill up those. "But the government has not taken any initiative to appoint us to fulfil the posts,” he said. About relaxation of the quota reservation system, another organiser Dr Shah Mohammad Zakir Hossain said, “We are not against the quota system as it gives opportunities to the disadvantaged. But it does not allow the authorities to keep the posts vacant due to non-availability of qualified applicants from the quota groups.” They also sought prime minister's interference to resolve the problems centring the recruitment. The aggrieved doctors will form a human-chain in front of the National Press Club and submit a memorandum to the prime minister today to press home their demands.