The Public Service Commission’s decision to qualify as many as 46,250 candidates for the written test in the amended results for the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service Examination will delay the total recruitment process.
Candidates feared that the revised results would cause them to have a long wait as all qualifiers had to go through different phases of examinations to have a final outcome.
They said the BCS recruitment was a complex and time-consuming process, and they could not do anything during this time, but to take preparation for examinations, depending on their family.
“Our pains will increase if the time prolongs,” said the BCS aspirants.
Many officials of the Public Service Commission (PSC) said conducting written tests for this excessive amount of candidates would create complexities and require a lot of time.
In the first published preliminary result, 12,033 candidates qualified, but PSC had to review the results in the face of the protest by the test takers. Following the review, 46,250 students were shown as qualified in the preliminary examination.
The number of the qualifying candidates is unusual compared to the BCS results in the past years. In the 33rd preliminary examination held in 2012, some 28,917 candidates qualified in the preliminary test.
Maksudul Alam, a student who passed the 34th BCS preliminary examination said it would be a big problem for the PSC to handle so many candidates.
“Normally when we take preparation for BCS, we do not try for other jobs. And if we do not qualify for the PSC job finally, we will lose both,” he added.
Former PSC member Mohammad Mohabbat Khan said much time would be required to complete the recruitment process for the high number of candidates.
He, however, said the situation was so complex and PSC had nothing but to qualify the high number of candidates.
Former PSC chairman SMA Faiz said conducting written examinations and viva voce for the large number of candidates might be difficult.
But the incumbent PSC Chairman AT Ahmedul Huq Choudhury does not think so.
He said there are precedents that such high number of candidates qualified in the past and this time also this won’t create any problem.