The government had over 300,000 jobs vacant as of December 2014, said Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday.
Replying to a query in Parliament, he said there were 302,904 vacant posts and the process of updating the list of vacancies was going on.
He added that among the vacant posts – 39,000 were first class posts, 30,422 second class, 163,417 fourth class and 69,501 were fifth class.
Replying to another query, the minister said currently there are 187 officers on special duty (OSD).
Among the OSD officials are two secretaries, 17 additional secretaries, 72 joint secretaries, 45 deputy secretaries, 35 senior assistant secretaries and 16 assistant secretaries.
The minister also said the government had no plan to increase government job entry age from 30 to 35.