34th BCS pass count goes up

A total of 46,250 candidates have cleared the 34th BCS preliminary examination after a review of the results, with the outcome being announced on Sunday.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) published these fresh results amid protest by students against results declared on the basis of quotas.

The examination was taken by 221,000 candidates seeking appointment to 2,052 posts of various cadres.

The results will be available on the commission’s website www.bpsc.gov.bd , PSC Public Relation officer Meer Mosharraf Hossain told bdnews24.com.

The results will not be posted on the commission’s notice board.

Before this, 12,033 candidates had cleared the examinations in the Jul 8 results based on quota system. More than 34,000 candidates have passed in the reviewed results.

According to a PSC media statement on Saturday, the results would be declared based on the previous system.

Preliminary results used to be released based on numbers solely. Quota used to get considered in the final results after written and oral examinations.

This is the first instance of quota being considered in preliminary. Candidates say many ‘meritorious’ students who took the exams were left out.

Agitated students in Dhaka and elsewhere took to the streets last week after the preliminary results based on quotas were announced. They set up a daylong blockade at Shahbagh last Wednesday.

In the face of agitation, PSC announced a re-evaluation of results on Jul 10 but protesters were apparently not pacified.

At least 19 people were injured on Jul 11 as Dhaka University campus turned into a battlefield with protestors clashing with police for their demanding scrapping of quota system in government jobs.

The students have called strikes in all educational institutions for Sunday while the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami have asked demanded to do away with the quota system.