Many jobs remain inaccessible to many individuals because of the quota system.

It is a well-known fact that politicians seek to retain power once they attain it.

The students demonstrating for quota reform vow to boycott their classes and examinations across the country until the gazette notification abolishing the quota system in government jobs is published.

The student protests that swept the country weeks ago were not just about the quota system in public jobs. As a whole, they should be interpreted as a major symptom of a much more complex disease: soaring youth unemployment that can have serious implications for the country's future.