Viva Voce of 28th BCS from Sept: PSC
The preliminary test of the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination was held properly and peacefully and the Public Service Commission (PSC) will issue a circular for the 30th within January 15 next year.
PSC chairman Dr Saadat Husain said this yesterday while speaking at a press conference at his office in the city.
He said, the results of the 28th BCS written exams could be out this month as the PSC was on track to start viva voce by the end of September.
The 28th BCS preliminary exams were held on Nov 28, last year, the results were published on Feb 1 and the written exams ended in May.
The press conference was organised to inform the press of the successful completion of the preliminary exam of the 29th BCS.
PSC member Brig Gen (retd) Abidur Reza Khan who was in charge of the 29th BCS exam committee, said that the results of the preliminary exams would be published within one and a half-month.
Around 1,23,952 candidates sat for the 29th BCS first-round exams on Aug 14, to vie for just 1,581 posts, he said.
Replying to a question the PSC chairman claimed the preliminary exam was fairly conducted except stray errors at different centres.
"We received complaints from three candidates that they got question from 'Parul' set instead of 'Chapa'. The PSC meeting will decide what to do," Dr Saadat said, urging the candidates to contact with the PSC if anyone faced such problem.
"We will not do anything that can cause harm to the candidates," he said. He, however, hinted, "individual centres might have done the mistake as we sent several set of question papers to the centres. Just 25 minutes prior to the exam PSC through lottery decide on which set the exam will be held, he noted adding that the concerned authority of a centre including a magistrate got the message by phone or fax."
About the ad hoc appointment by the ministries the PSC chairman said, the appointments would be regularised as per PSC rules.
"Ministries can now make urgent recruitment on ad hoc basis if necessary as the 1994 rules which ceased ad hoc recruitment was lifted by the incumbent government," he said.
The PSC requires minimum eight to nine month's wholehearted efforts to complete a BCS exam as the process includes co-ordination of all ministries, he also informed.
"PSC's job is to help the government in recruiting quality officers," he added.
Dr Saadat, however, did not say anything about the recommendation of the parliamentary sub-committee and the Prime Minister's Office to recruit 1,022 BCS candidates, who had qualified in the first phase of the 27th BCS.
"We have nothing new to tell as the court has rejected the case. We have placed related information and data to the authorities concerned earlier," he said.
Other members and officials of PSC were present at the press conference. "PSC will try to hold BCS examinations every year," it was informed.
