Dhaka, April 8 -- The Public Service Commission (PSC) has announced a plan to shorten the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination process from three and a half years to just one.

PSC Chairman Mobasser Monem outlined the commission's vision during a media briefing on Tuesday, held in conjunction with the commission's founding anniversary.

"The responsibility entrusted to us is to reduce the three and a half years of BCS to one year," Monem said.

"If we want to do it in one year, I doubt how much it will be possible even if we try with the current system in which the exam is taken. We have to go for an innovative system that is used in developed countries."

"Our main target is that the BCS examination that is now held is, on an avera...