Bangladesh’s govt job vacancies rise as pandemic slows workThe suspension of government job postings due to the coronavirus pandemic has increased vacancies along with the number of jobseekers.As many as 387,338 government posts, or 21.27 percent of the total, are now vacant. The autonomous institutions and corporations have 111,692 vacancies.The government employees include a little over 1 million men and nearly 400,000 women.Bangladesh enforced a 66-day nationwide lockdown from Mar 26 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The PSC did not issue any recruitment notification during the period and the first three months of the year.However, the commission issued several recruitment notices for non-cadre posts in the first week of June. “And new recruitments will be naturally delayed until the postponed appointments are made.”As many as 65 million people out of the 160 million-strong population are currently employed, according to the labour ministry. They include 10 million people working in the formal sectors and 55 million in the informal sectors.State Minister Farhad Hossain said if the number of coronavirus cases does not surge, the Bangladesh Civil Service tests will be held in October or November, he said.“A lot of decisions will be made based on the COVID-19 situation in August.”Source: bdnews24.com

Source: bd News24 August 09, 2020 09:45 UTC