Readers’ Voice

Job application fees

Every year thousands of graduates complete honors-masters courses from different universities. But the problem is, most of the graduates do not get a job as the number of vacancies is too few. However, the job application fee is skyrocketing. It is like a death knell for the unemployed.
May the good sense of the employers rise and the job examination fees be fixed nominally for the convenience of the job seekers. This is our expectation in the golden jubilee of independence.

Md. Billal Hossain
Islamic University

Smoking in public

With the exception of certain places, the Tobacco Control Act provides the provision of ‘designated smoking zones’ in public places and transports with multiple compartments. That is the reason why smoking is widely observed in various public places and public transport. As a result, it is not possible to protect the populace, especially the women and children, from the harms of secondhand smoke.
Smoking should be completely banned from all types of spaces those are not enclosed by walls including restaurants, hotels, public places, workplaces and mechanical transports with multiple compartments as well as all non-mechanical public transport.

Mehedi Hasan
Dhaka