Individuals, both men and women, are free to pursue public service careers well into their later years, with emphasis placed on experience, expertise, and merit rather than age.

A group of job seekers, who are demanding extensions of the age limit to 35 for entering the government job, staged a demonstration in Dhaka's Shahbagh today.

A parliamentary body yesterday again recommended that the government raise the age limit for entering civil service to 35 years, a longstanding demand of students.