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'Double secretariat system’ will end, officials hope

By Mostafa Kamal Majumdar
Begum Khaleda ZV* assumption of the office of the Prime Minister is expected to help end the "double see-re tariat system" tn the admini* tratton and .moothen the de cision making process, senior
The over-centraHsat ton of the administration i* also likely to be removed consider
However, the new Prime Minister is likely to have a tough time solving problems relating to the promotion* of officer* of different eadre ser-vfces.
Secretaries of different ministries are also of the opinion that the dyarchy of the President » Secretariat and the Central Secretariat in the ad ministration will be removed and the Central Secretariat will have an Increased role tn decision making.
During the nine year rule of former President Krshad the President * Secretariat dcvel-oped Into a parallel decision -making body and In some cases ministries played a very small role.
The Ministry of Relief and Rehabilitation for instance, was by and large controlled by the Public Division of'the President's Secretariat, said a secretary.
Begum Khaleda Zia's first meeting with senior government officials on Saturday was taken as an indication that she is going to assert as the virtual chief executive.
During the fag-end of the Jatiya Party regime, no important decision could be taken without interference from the President’s Secretariat.
Bureaucrats now believe that such interference will no longer exist. This in turn will help speed up decision-making.
Senior bureaucrats also believe that the honesty of Begum Zia makes her call for the establishment of an honest
government and a corruption free administration credible. It will be difficult for others to be dishonest and adopt corrupt practices, they say.
The new Prime Minister. However, may find it difficult to tackle the problems of the officers belonging to 29 cadre services who are not getting promotions as their gradation lists have not been prepared for years.
The recent promotions tn the administration cadre have created serious dissatisfaction among officers of the 29 cadre services.
The practice of granting time scale to officers and employees has complicated the problem.
At present there are departments where officers of upper and lower grades get salaries in the same pay-scale.
In some cases lower grade officers get higher salaries than those of upper grade officers.
For Instance a good number of senior information officers in the Press Information Department (PID) get salaries equal to those of deputy principal information officers.
Darwans and liftmen of the Central Secretariat say that their work has increased with the coming of the political government to power.
They say that the number tf visitors to the secretariat has Increased after falling drastically during the three-month tenure of the Interim government.