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Bureaucrats set for promotions

Job status of around 400 officers to be elevated in order to bring dynamism in admin

M Abul Kai am Azad
The government is set to give promotions to a large number of civil administration officials, prioritising those who were denied promotions by previous governments.
The move is also aimed at bringing more dynamism to the administration, as inertia is still evident in the bureaucracy due to a lack of coordination among inexperienced ministers, advisers, and the top bureaucrats.
Around 400 officers of the ranks of senior assistant secretary, deputy secretary, joint secretary and additional secretary are likely to be promoted in a day or two, said sources in the establishment ministry yesterday.
The mass promotion will be the biggest provided by the Awami League-led coalition government since its assumption of office in early January this year. The move was planned although there is hardly any post vacant at the top level bureaucracy, the sources however added.
"Giving promotions to those who have been at the same post for years is only fair. At the
same time, we believe, promoting a large number of officials will definitely inspire them to work with added sincerity, ultimately accelerating the pace of administrative work," observed a senior official of Bangladesh Secretariat.
The Superior Selection Board (SSB) held meetings on Wednesday and Thursday at the establishment ministry to finalise the names of the officers to be promoted. Cabinet Secretary M Abdul Aziz chaired the meetings.
"The SSB meetings recommended promotions to tire levels of deputy secretary, joint secretary, additional secretary and secretary," said an official of the Cabinet Division, adding that a large number of officials mostly of the administration cadre of various batches of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) will be promoted.
The establishment ministry is set to send a relevant summary to the Prime Minister's Office anytime, the sources added.
The AL-led government recently gave promotions to the tiers of additional secretary and
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secretary, but no move was taken initially to promote any person to the level of deputy secretary. Many senior assistant secretaries already expressed their grievances to the establishment secretary for being 'deprived of promotions for years'.
About 20 senior assistant secretaries, mostly of the 9th batch of BCS (administration), gathered at the Cabinet Division on July 16 to push for their demand for promotions when the SSB was holding a meeting.
An establishment ministry official said although the government reshuffled the administration several times in the last seven months, which according to some observers were rather indis-
criminate, this time the promotions will be given based on the officers' past records.
He said if any official had been deprived of a promotion in the past, the SSB looked into the grounds for which he or she had been denied the promotion. Officials facing specific allegations were not considered for the promotions, he added.
Ollier sources in the ministry said 200 senior assistant secretaries arc set to be promoted to the rank of deputy secretary, some 150 deputy secretaries are set to become joint secretaries, about 40 joint secretaries are to be promoted to the post of additional secretary, while four to five additional secretaries are to be made secretaries.