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People cheering in front of the prime minister's office after Sheikh Hasina's resignation. The non-cooperation movement, [a] also known as the one-point movement, [b] was a protest against the government of Bangladesh, initiated within the framework of the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
Bangladesh Civil Service ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ সিভিল সার্ভিস ), popularly known by its acronym BCS, is the civil service of Bangladesh. Civil service in the Indian subcontinent originated from the Imperial Civil Service which was the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British ...
Punjab National Bank (abbreviated as PNB) is an Indian government public sector bank based in New Delhi. [ 5] It was founded in May 1894 and is the second-largest public sector bank in India in terms of its business volumes, with over 180 million customers, 12,248 branches, and 13,000+ ATMs. [ 6][ 3] PNB has a banking subsidiary in the UK (PNB ...
Government jobs provide better pay and benefits than private sector jobs in Bangladesh, which creates demand for government jobs. [2] Students in Bangladesh protested in 2013 , 2018 , and 2024 against the quota system and have argued that talented candidates were not being recruited due to the quota.
The Prime minister of Bangladesh committed to remove this quota system as soon as possible. In October 2018, the government eliminated the quota system for recruitment to grade 9 and higher government jobs. In 2020, they went a step further, abolishing quotas for grade 8 and higher government posts. [5]
On 12 January 2007, with military backing, the former Bangladesh Bank governor Fakhruddin Ahmed, who had worked for the World Bank, was sworn in as the new Chief Advisor. He appointed five advisors on 13 January to form the new interim government.
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was a series of anti-government [ d] and pro- democracy [ e] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when ...
University of Dhaka. Princeton University (Ph.D.) Fakhruddin Ahmed (born 1 May 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, civil servant, and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank. [ 2] He also served as the acting prime minister of Bangladesh. On 12 January 2007, he was appointed Chief Adviser (head of the government) of ...