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PM turns down top brass promotion

Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has finally turned down promotion of around 180 officials to the posts of joint and additional secretaries following raging resentment over the selection.
"The prime minister refused to approve the summary of a proposal for the promotion as it failed to ensure justice and select brilliant officials despite clear instruction from her," said a high official at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The Superior Selection Board (SSB), the highest decision-making body of the civil administration, after
two rounds of meeting on August 9 and 13 sent the summary to the premier.
The summary recommended promotion of 85 joint secretaries and 62 deputy secretaries.
The selection of officials for promotion bred commotion in the administration and many aspirants complained to a number of senior ministers and policymakers of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) about picking up people on political grounds.
The names of brilliant officials with good track records and 'sympathy towards the alliance govern
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ment' were dropped from the elevation list due to 'jealousy' of some mid-ranking officials posted to the PMO and establishment ministry, they said.
Sources said many senior ministers and top officials informed the premier about faults in the selection and requested her not to approve the list.
They said although there is vacancy for 43 posts of additional secretary, the SSB recommended 85 from 1973, 1977 and 1979
batches.
But some 20 joint secretaries of the 1973 batch, who qualified for elevation, were not included on the list.
Some 1973 batch officials who maintain close links with the BNP have also been dropped from the list at directives of some mid-ranking officials at the PMO, a senior minister told The Daily Star yesterday.
A dozen of brilliant officials of the 1981 batch have been dropped from the list for promotion to the posts of joint secretary. Sources said officials of the 1981 batch, pegged as the best group since independence, was dropped as some of them held important positions during the Awami League rule.
About 100 brilliant officers were recruited through the 1981 Bangladesh Civil Service examinations to develop a batch of brilliant civil servants at the instruction of former president Ziaur Rahman.
The batch has now become a victim of jealousy by their seniors, BNP sources said.
Highly placed sources said the entire promotion issue has now become completely uncertain.