The government promoted eight additional secretaries to the position of secretaries yesterday.

They had been carrying out their responsibilities as acting secretaries in different divisions in the ministries, says a gazette notification of the establishment ministry.

The officials who have been promoted are: Abu Alam Shahid Khan from Primary and Mass Education Ministry, Nurul Haq from Labour and Manpower Ministry, Abdul Mannan Hawlader from Shipping Ministry, Abdur Rob Hawlader from Ministry of Science and Information Technology, Zafar Ahmed Khan of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry, Masud Ahmed of Chittagong Hill Tracks Affairs Ministry, Mejbah Uddin of Energy and Mineral Resources Division and acting member of Privatisation Commission Mridul Bhattachariya.

Of them, Abu Alam was elevated to the top most rank in administration during the tenure of the current government.

However, his career growth had become stagnant during the era of the four-party alliance government as well as the caretaker government's regime.