The interim government on Thursday extended the maximum age limit for entry to jobs at government, autonomous, semi-autonomous and statutory organisations to 32 years from 30 years.
The decision was taken in the meeting of the council of advisers with chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in the chair at his Tejgaon office.
鈥楾he maximum age limit for entry to all cadre services under the Bangladesh Civil Service and all other public services outside the BCS would be 32,鈥� said a press release from the Cabinet Division.
It said that a draft of an ordinance to the effect was approved in the meeting of the council of advisers.
鈥業t would take three to four days to issue a gazette notification increasing the age limit for government jobs to 32 years,鈥� the government spokesperson and environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan told a press briefing at the Foreign聽 Service Academy after the cabinet meeting.
Under Section 59 of the 鈥楶ublic Service Act- 2018,鈥� the Ministry of Public Administration will amend the 鈥楤angladesh Civil Service (Age, Qualification, and Direct Recruitment Examination) Rules, 2014鈥� to include the provision allowing a candidate to appear in the Bangladesh Civil Service examination a maximum of three times, it said.
The government decision came in the wake of the demand from government job seekers rallying for raising the limit to 35 years for long.
The campaigners demanding 35 years as the age limit for entry to government jobs have, however, rejected the raised age limit and threatened the government to continue their demonstrations for accepting their demand.聽
Currently, the age limit for entering government services is 30 years, and 32 for children and grandchildren of freedom fighters.
The new threshold will be applied in the autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations with necessary adaptations in their respective recruitment rules, the Cabinet Division press release said.
It said that, in the case of defense services and law enforcement agencies, their respective recruitment rules would remain unchanged.
On October 14, the review committee on determining the age limit for entering government jobs led by former secretary Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury recommended to the interim government that the age limit should be 35 years for men and 37 years for women.
The interim government, amid job aspirants鈥� movement demanding 35 years as the age limit for applying for government jobs, on September 30 formed a five-member committee led by Muyeed to review a rational age limit for entry to government jobs.