47th BCS: BPSC sends proposal to ministry to halve Tk700 application fee

The Bangladesh Public Provider Commission (PSC) has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Public Administration to halve the applying price for the Forty seventh Bangladesh Civil Provider (BCS) examinations.

The proposal, sent to the ministry this day (2 December), advocated for lowering the Tk700 application price by half to Tk350, acknowledged an legit of the ministry, experiences Prothom Alo.

Many job aspirants criticised the Tk700 application price after the publication of the Forty seventh BCS tests round, which compelled the BPSC to rob steps on this regard.

Earlier, the commission had launched to in the reduction of the cost for the Forty seventh BCS tests aligning with the commitment it made during the protests applied by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

The round for the Forty seventh BCS tests used to be revealed in the afternoon final Thursday (28 November), asserting a crammed with 3,688 vacancies.

Among these, 3,487 positions are for diversified cadres, whereas 201 are designated for non-cadre roles.

Per the round, the age of applicants will be calculated as of 1 November, 2024.

The web application direction of will initiate at 10am on 10 December and will live initiate till 11:59pm on 31 December.

The Forty seventh BCS tests purpose to recruit 3,487 cadre vacancies actual by means of diversified sectors, alongside side administration, education, and successfully being. Additionally, 201 non-cadre positions will be crammed by means of this examination. The awareness moreover talked about the inclusion of several newly created roles on this BCS.

Meanwhile, the Public Administration Reform Commission has made up our minds that it might perhaps perhaps perhaps well advocate the federal government to rob away the observe “cadre” from civil carrier.

After a assembly of the commission at the secretariat the old day (1 December), the final public administration ministry’s Senior Secretary Md Mokhles Ur Rahman acknowledged the observe “cadre” is perceived negatively so the commission will advocate its elimination.