BNP Acting Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday stressed the need to ensure merit-based evaluation to take Bangladesh forward, saying a system driven by public pressure and influence must not be allowed to replace meritocracy.
“Bangladesh must also ensure meritocracy or merit-based evaluation to move forward. Mobocracy, or a system driven by public pressure and influence instead of merit, must not be allowed to grow,” he said.
Rizvi made the remarks while addressing the National Engineers’ Conference-2026 as the chief guest in the night, organised on the occasion of Engineers’ Rights Day.
The Engineers’ Rights Movement organised the conference with overall cooperation from the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).
Rizvi called for ensuring the maximum use of the merit, skills and experience of engineers and technologists for the country’s development and progress.
He said it is a natural expectation of a justice-based state that highly educated and skilled people get opportunities to work at higher levels.
“But in Bangladesh, the merit, qualifications and professional skills of BSc engineers are not being properly valued. At the same time, job opportunities for engineers are shrinking day by day. This situation needs to be changed urgently,” he said.
Rizvi said the importance of engineers and technologists must be increased if a country is to achieve development.
“A country cannot become developed without increasing the importance of its engineers and technologists,” he said.
“If responsibilities are distributed based on considerations other than qualifications, it will not only create discrimination against engineers but also weaken the country’s development system,” he said.
