Bangladesh News

The caretaker government yesterday withdrew 18 deputy commissioners (DCs), appointed 33 new DCs and transferred 57 upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) as part of its ongoing move to reshuffle in the administration.

In another move, Khulna Divisional Commissioner Mahfuzul Haque was withdrawn and brought to the establishment ministry, being replaced by Trading Corporation of Bangladesh Chairman Kabir M Ashraf.

The Superior Selection Board (SSB) meanwhile sits today with the cabinet secretary in the chair to settle promotions and postings of the government employees who were deprived during the rule of the immediate past BNP-led four-party coalition government.

A large number of government officials and employees deprived of promotion and posting staged a sit-in inside the office of Establishment Secretary AFM Soaliman Chowdhury on Thursday.

Following the agitation, the Cabinet Division decided that the SSB will sit Sunday afternoon to promote qualifying officers.

Yesterday’s reshuffle and new appointments came following Friday’s decision of the Advisory Council for Administrative Affairs to initiate a mass transfer of field-level officials for creating a congenial atmosphere for the upcoming general elections.

Those who were withdrawn and attached to the establishment ministry are the DCs of Madaripur, Jessore, Barisal, Comilla, Feni, Khulna, Naogaon, Rangpur, Sylhet, Dhaka, Sirajganj, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Gazipur, Gaibandha, Patuakhali, Netrakona and Narsingdi.

The DCs of Joypurhat, Kurigram, Jamalpur, Thakurgaon, Chandpur, Laxmipur, Magura, Rajbari and Dinajpur were transferred to other districts.

An official announcement yesterday said Deputy Secretary of establishment ministry Md Abdul Halim was appointed DC and district magistrate (DM) of Magura, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Tangail Md Abdul Mannan DC/DM of Chuadanga, ADC of Dhaka Begum Touhida Bulbul DC/DM of Rajbari, Deputy Secretary of commerce ministry Md Ibrahim Khalil DC/DM of Sirajganj, Military Estate Officer of Chittagong Syed Ahmed Safa DC/DM of Brahmanbaria, ADC of Nilphamari Netai Pal Das DC/DM of Joypurhat, Export Promotion Bureau Director Md Monjur-E-Elahi DC/DM of Barisal, DC/DM of Joypurhat Md Mohibul Hossain DC/DM of Comilla, Counterpart Officer of Economic Relations Division Md Masum Khan DC/DM of Feni, DC/DM of Kurigram SM Firoz Alam DC of Khulna, Deputy Secretary of education ministry Md Khalilur Rahman DC/DM of Naogaon, Deputy Secretary of fisheries and livestock ministry Khandaker Atiar Rahman DC/DM of Rangpur, DC/DM of Jamalpur Md Hanif DC/DM of Dhaka, Deputy Secretary of Personnel Department of President’s Office Shahidul Islam DC/DM of Bagerhat, Jamalpur Jila Parishad Chief Executive Officer Sheikh Abdul Ahad DC/DM of Sherpur, Deputy Secretary of home ministry Md Abdul Haque DC/DM of Jamalpur, DC/DM of Thakurgaon Abdur Rahim Mollah DC/DM of Kurigram, Project Director of Female Secondary Education and Stipend Project Md Safayet Hossain DC/DM of Thakurgaon, DC/DM of Chandpur Kazi Md Anwarul Hakim DC/DM of Gaibandha, Deputy Secretary of home ministry SM Monirul Islam DC/DM of Chandpur, DC/DM of Laxmipur Adual Hossain DC/DM of Jessore, OSD (deputy secretary) of establishment ministry Md Taslimul Islam DC/DM of Laxmipur, DC/DM of Magura Neamatullah Bhuiyan DC/DM of Madaripur, Chief Revenue Officer of Wasa Md Hafizuddin DC/DM of Panchagarh, Kurigram Jila Parishad Chief Executive Officer Md Rafiqul Islam DC/DM of Lalmonirhat, DC/DM of Rajbari Jamal Hossain Majumdar DC/DM of Sylhet, ADC of Sylhet Ashraf Shamim DC/DM of Moulvibazar, Deputy Secretary of expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry Kamaluddin DC/DM of Narsingdi, ADC of Netrakona AM Syful Hasan DC/DM of Dinajpur, ADC of Thakurgaon Md Ataur Rahman DC/DM of Manikganj, OSD (deputy secretary) of establishment ministry AGM Meer Moshiur Alam DC/DM of Patuakhali, DC/DM of Dinajpur Syed Mizanur Rahman DC/DM of Gazipur, ADC of Moulvibazar Md Ayetullah Majumder DC/DM of Netrakona.

The DCs withdrawn and made OSD are Md Jasimuddin Badol of Madaripur, Abdul Khaleq of Jessore, Sheikh Salahuddin of Barisal, Md Mizanur Rahman of Comilla, Meer Ahmed of Feni, Md Illias Hossain of Khulna, Md Abu Taleb Mollah of Naogaon, Md Nazrul Islam Khan of Rangpur, SM Faisal Alam of Sylhet, AAM Nosihul Kamal of Dhaka, Md Aminul Rab Chowdhury of Sirajganj, Ajahar Ali of Panchagarh, Babul Chandra Roy of Lalmonirhat, Md Mahmudul Haq of Gazipur, Md Mojibur Rahman of Gaibandha, Md Firoz Salahuddin of Narsingdi, Hasan Jahangir Alam of Patuakhali, and Abul Kashem Md Borhanuddin of Netrokona.

Meanwhile, the government cancelled the OSD orders for DC/DM of Joypurhat Md Mohibul Hossain and DC/DM of Magura Md Neamatullah Bhuiyan.

The appointments of agricultural ministry Deputy Secretary Md Ziaul Haq as DC/DM of Sherpur and Bangladesh Biman General Manager Mushfiq Ahmed Shamim as DC/DM of Bagerhat were also cancelled.

As part of reshuffle in the field-level administration, the government on November 11 withdrew 14 DCs and made them officers-on-special-duty (OSD) at the establishment ministry. It also appointed 23 deputy secretaries of the BCS (admin) cadre as DCs.

On November 14, the government transferred 58 UNOs.