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327 promoted as dy secys

Staff Correspondent
The government yesterday promoted 314 senior assistant secretaries from different cadres of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) and 13 circle officers from non-BCS cadres to the post of deputy secretary.
Of the BCS officials 252 are from the administration cadre and the remaining 62 are from 18 other cadres, while the number of the non-BCS officials is 13.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday afternoon approved the recommendation lists containing the 327 names for promotion. The lists were submitted after seven rounds of meeting in last two months by the Superior Selection Board (SSB), the highest body to handle the issue.
The Ministry of Establishment in separate official notifications published the promotion lists.
All the 327 new deputy secretaries have been made Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and posted to the Ministry of Establishment until fresh posting, according to the notification.
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Officials said, the civil administration has a total of 830 posts of deputy secretary, of which 263 are currently lying vacant. The much-delayed promotion, however, recommended more names than the vacant posts.
Most of the elevated officials were drawn from the 1984 BCS Batch while several were taken from the 1982 BCS Special Batch.
The SSB lists created commotion in the administration and many senior assistant secretaries, who are also qualified for promotion, complained that the body, allegedly influenced by some quarters, handpicked people on "political considerations".
Witnesses said a number of officials broke down in tears as they did not find their names on the lists.
"The promotion was made after thorough investigation by two leading intelligence agencies," said an influential official at the establishment ministry.
Although officials of other cadres were largely ignored for the promotion, they are apparently happy as some 62 officials from other cadres were accommodated this time. On the other hand, officials of the administration cadre are unhappy for inclusion of the 62 officials from 18 other cadres into the administration cadre.
Officials at important offices, including the additional deputy commissioners of different districts, private secretaries to ministers, secretaries and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), dominated the promotion list.
Private secretaries to both the minister and state minister for environment and forest, minister for fisheries and livestock, deputy leader of the opposition, deputy minister for land, assistant private secretary to the commerce minister and several directors at the PMO were also on the list.
The 62 officials from other cadres included one each from the BCS postal, roads and highways, livestock and statistics cadres. Five were picked from health, nine from public works, four from education, seven from cooperatives, three from taxation, two from economics, four from audit and accounts, three from fisheries, eight from agriculture, three from food, four from information, two from railway commercial transportation and four from railway engineering cadres.