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Jobs of 334 Rail Staff

Recruitment done ignoring criteria

M Abul Kalam Azad
Two important selection criteria -- district quota and physical fitness — were not applied properly in recruiting 334 railway security personnel last year, a departmental probe of Bangladesh Railway revealed recently.
The inquiry held responsible all the six railway officials assigned for the recruitment for ignoring the criteria.
They are Enamul Haq, Dhaka division
security commandant, Yusuf Ali Mridha, junior personal officer to the general manager (east zone), and four assistant security commandants.
As per rules, the railway authorities will now frame charges against the six accused. Show cause notices will be served on them stating why action would not be taken against them.
Punitive action would be taken against them if their replies were not satisfactory,
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Md Abu Taher, director general of railway, told The Daily Star.
If their replies were found satisfactory, the authorities might pardon them, he added.
Widespread corruption in railway recruitment came to light when Ali Azam Khan, driver of former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta's APS Omar Faruq Talukder, pulled over Faruq's microbus at the Pilkhana headquarters of Border Guard Bangladesh in the wee hours of April 9.
Enamul and Mridha were also in the microbus, which
was carrying Tk 70 lakh allegedly collected from railway jobseekers.
The scam led to the resignation of Suranjit as the railway minister and suspension of Enamul and Mridha.
Railway officials said the departmental inquiry was launched in March following complaints from some jobseekers about irregularities in the selection of securitypersonnel.
The probe team found that the district quota had not been followed properly and some physically unfit candidates had been recruited.
“None from several districts was picked for the posts, although those districts had qualified candidates,” said a senior railway official, preferringanonymity.
Some candidates were even appointed despite not having the required height, he added.
Earlier Mridha had admitted to The Daily Star that the district quota was not followed properly in the railway's recruitment.
He said many lawmakers, politicians and senior railway officials had put pressure on him to recruit their favoured candidates.