Govt has no plan to increase age limit for job entry

State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain said the government has no plans to raise the age limit for entry into jobs.

If the age limit for entering jobs is increased, the recruitment tests will be more competitive and there will be frustration among those below 30 years of age, said Farhad Hossain at the parliament in response to lawmaker Habibe Millat's question on Tuesday.

The state minister for public administration said in the past there were big session jams in many universities, but currently, there is no significant session jam anywhere. As a result, students usually pass SSC at the age of 16, HSC at 18, and master's degree at 23-24.

Since the maximum age limit for entry into the jobs is 30 years for general candidates, even after obtaining a master's degree, they have at least six-seven years to apply for the jobs. When a candidate below 30 years of age applies for a job and it takes one to two years to complete the recruitment process, it is not counted, he said.

Farhad Hossain further said the number of vacancies has dropped as the retirement age has been raised from 57 to 59 years recently. In this context, if the age limit for entering the job is increased, the number of job seekers for different positions will increase by a huge ratio.

This can lead to more competition in recruitment, creating frustration among candidates below the age of 30. In this context, the government has no plans to increase the age limit for entering a job.
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The minister said the government set up a cyber tribunal in Dhaka for the first time in 2013 to settle cases related to information technology. Later, when the number of cybercrime cases increased, seven more cyber tribunals were established in Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Rangpur and Mymensingh in 2019.

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He also said Tk3.08 crore has been allocated in the district committee funds in the current fiscal year.

In response to a question from reserved women's seat lawmaker Begum Lutfun Nesa Khan, State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruk said 54 Bangladesh-India cross-border rivers are coming from Indian sources to Bangladesh.

Among these rivers, there is an agreement on the distribution of water in the Ganges. Bangladesh and India signed a historic 30-year Ganges Water Sharing Treaty in 1996, and they jointly implemented the agreement from 1 January to 31 May every year.