7 promoted to secretary rank
Staff Correspondent
The government yesterday brought major changes in the civil administration, promoting seven officers to the rank of secretary and making one secretary and two additional secretaries the officer-on-special-duty (OSD).
The government also gave postings to a number of officers who were made OSD by the BNP-led four-party government and the immediate-past caretaker administration.
The promoted secretaries are acting secretary to the establishment ministry ASM Ali Kabir, additional secretary to the education ministry Abu Taher Khandakar Md Ismail, acting secretary to the shipping ministry Abdus Sobhan Shikder, additional secretary to the Power Division Wahidunnabi Chowdhury, chairman of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation Qamrul Alam Rabbani, acting secretary to the science and ICT ministry Nazmul Huda Khan and additional secretary to the Parliament Secretariat ABM Nuruzzaman.
The three officers who have been made OSD are Post and Telecommunications Secretary Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, Additional Secretary to the home ministry Sheikh Abdur Rashid and secretary to Bangladesh Public Service Commission Secretariat Mokhles Ur Rahman, say gazette notifications of the establishment ministry.
Besides, member of the Land Reform Board Mihir Kanti Majumder has been posted to the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) while OSD Uzzal Bikash Datta to the education ministry as additional secretary and OSD Md Golam Hossain to the home ministry as additional secretary.
OSD Nazibur Rahman has been transferred to the Department of Environment as director general (DG) replacing Khandakar Rashidul Haque, who has been made DG of the Planning and Development Academy.
OSD Monwara Begum has been posted to the Bangladesh Space Research & Remote Sensing Organisation as its chairman while DG of the Department of Social Services Hedayetullah Al Mamun to the Public Service Commission Secretariat as its secretary.
Joint secretary Apurba Kumar Biswas, who was earlier attached to the Board of Investment (BoI), was sent to the Directorate of Government Transport as its transport commissioner replacing Md Abul Kashem, who has been transferred to the Bangladesh Employees’ Welfare Board as DG.
Director of the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation Shitangsu Sen has been transferred to the Department of Social Services while joint secretary of the youth and sports ministry Sadar Uddin Ahmed to the National Museum of Science and joint secretary of shipping ministry Md Nurul Haque to the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) as its chief executive officer.
Chief executive officer of DCC Md Alauddin has been transferred to the shipping ministry as its joint secretary while establishment ministry joint secretary Main Uddin Khandkar to the education ministry as joint secretary, posts and telecommunications joint secretary Gazi Mizanur Rahman to the youth and sports ministry as joint secretary and OSD Mohammad Abdul Wazed has been made joint secretary of the food and disaster management ministry.
Director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited Mohammad Tahir Hossain has been made member of SPARRSO while OSD ALM Abdur Rahman has been transferred to the Department of Printing, Stationery, Forms and Publications as its controller, say the notifications of the establishment ministry.
Courtesy: thedailystar.net
