The term of the cabinet secretary-led panel to review quotas in public service has been extended by 90 days.
The public administration ministry order was issued on Thursday, four days before the deadline to file a report.
On Jun 2, the government formed the seven-member committee led by Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam. It was given 15 working days to submit a report.
The panel was formed nearly two and half months after, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced in parliament to rescind quotas in civil service.
According to the existing system, 56 percent posts are reserved for different quotas, including 30 percent for children of freedom fighters, 10 percent each for women and particular districts, 5 percent for small ethnic groups, and 1 percent for people with disabilities.
Students and jobseekers have been demanding for long that the quotas be brought down to 10 percent.
In April, when countrywide protests peaked, bringing capital Dhaka down to its knees for three days, Hasina announced in parliament to abolish the entire system.
“There will be no quotas, since all the fuss about it,” she had said.
However, Hasina said recently that there was no scope to scrap the 30 percent quota for Freedom Fighters’ children citing a Supreme Court verdict.