Large numbers of candidates finally selected for assistant teacher posts at government primary schools have allegedly not received appointment letters, and many whose names are missing from the list have vented anger and frustration on social media.
Against that backdrop, National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam expressed his anger in a Facebook post.
“Tarique Rahman’s government has set an example of an utter farce even in recruiting government primary school teachers, the last refuge of educated jobseekers,” Nahid Islam wrote.
“The dreams of at least a thousand talented young people who were selected have been crushed in the name of intelligence agency verification,” he alleged. “Even after they proved their merit in written and other rounds, they were put through eight long months of uncertainty and harassment in the name of verification. In the end, these young people were denied appointment letters and pushed into deep despair.”
“What is more worrying is that there is no record of any criminal case or general diary against most of those excluded at any police station,” Nahid Islam wrote. “Nor has any past criminal activity or link to a militant group been found against them. Yet they have allegedly been removed from appointment without any transparent, clear or accountable process.” Demanding that the government answer for the decision, he wrote: “If a citizen with such merit and ability, who has passed every stage of the examinations, is denied a job on the basis of opaque verification, it is not only an injustice to these young people but calls the state’s recruitment system into question. We demand unequivocally that every innocent candidate against whom there is no specific and lawful allegation be appointed immediately, and that the exclusion process and the verification criteria be made public.”
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