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JS body for cutting ministry numbers

Staff Correspondent
A parliamentary body yesterday pegged the current administration as 'top-heavy' and agreed with four separate reports that suggested downsizing the number of ministries.
The parliamentary standing committee on the establishment ministry discussed a ministry report that called for reducing the number of ministries to 20 to 22 from 39.
The committee decided to pore over three other reports that had made similar recommendations earlier.
"We will suggest the govern-
ment to reduce the number of ministries and departments, " Sardar Shakhawat Hossain Bakul, chairman of the committee, told newspersons emerging from the meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
"We have got the reports of all commissions on public administration and the committee members will come up with their opinion by February 28."
"We will review the reports and make a set of recommendations."
The reports of Muhit, Nurunnabi and Shamsul Haque commissions had observed that the giant public administration with a welter of ministries and
departments should be downsized.
The committee, which at its earlier meeting committed to publishing a list of officials who participated in the much-talked-about anti-government Janatar Manch platform in 1996, bought time.
"The establishment ministry is still reviewing the list and we hope to disclose it at the next meeting," Bakul said.
The committee recommended the introduction of the Employees' Welfare Board Bill to the Jatiya Sangsad.
The establishment ministry
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yesterday submitted a draft on the career planning of public servants, focussing on their recruitment, transfer, promotion and training.
The committee will thoroughly review the draft and ask the government to pass its recommendations as a law in parliament.