Hasnat Abdullah has demanded swift action to reduce job application fees.
On Tuesday, he made this demand in a post on his personal Facebook account.
In his post, Hasnat wrote that the application fee for most government jobs at the ninth-grade level is Tk669.
He said that the application fee for various autonomous power companies, including DPDC, DESCO, NESCO, NWPGCL, CGPCL and Ashuganj is Tk1,000 and for the Assistant Manager level, it is Tk1,500.
He referred to these fees as a mockery to the unemployed.
He further said: “The job application fee should be a maximum of 200 taka. Any amount higher than that is unacceptable.”