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Caab eyes 7,000 new staff

Waits for govt nod to new organogram aimed at heightened airport security

Shariful Islam
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) is awaiting government approval for its restructured organogram that proposes creating around 7,000 new jobs to correct serious lapses in security, supervision and monitoring at the airports.
The Caab had submitted a draft organogram to the civil aviation ministry in February last year pro-
posing 13,776 posts for officials and staff. The ministry after scrutiny reduced the number to 10,694 and forwarded it to the establishment ministry in April.
The existing Caab organogram, approved upon an ordinance in 1985, has 3,716 posts with a chairman as its head.
The new organogram has been prepared keeping in mind the demand and operation in next 20 years.
Caab officials said they have been suffering from serious staff shortages, resulting in their struggle to carry out regular necessary safety and airworthiness inspections. A number of key points like control tower, area control centre and radars are so understaffed that only one person carries out duties at those places.
Shortage of staff at the fire control section in Chittagong and Sylhet airports was so acute that the
authorities often had to send people from Dhaka to carry out their day-to-day activities, mentioned the officials.
"The new organogram is one of the key requirements of the American Federal Aviation Administration [ FAA] to get the Caab upgraded to the top category from the existing category-2," Caab Chairman Air Vice-Marshal Mahmud Hussain told The Daily Star. Once the organogram was approved, the Caab would start recruiting necessary staff and train them up in phases, he added.
"In the last 30 years we couldn’t recruit any additional manpower although the aviation activities have increased by 10 to 15 times," the Caab chief said.
The new organogram proposes posting of an air vice-marshal from the air force on deputation as the chairman of the Caab. It also suggests creating seven posts of members, including one for the aviation security department, said sources in the civil aviation ministry.
Other member posts have been proposed for the departments of operations and planning, air traffic management, engineering, administration, finance, flight standard and regulations.
Currently, the Caab has only two posts of members.
As per the new organogram, joint secretarylevel officials will be appointed as members to the administration and finance departments, while the chief engineer will become the member of the engineering department.
The organogram also proposes appointment of four air commodore-ranked officers from the air force.
Besides, the security department headed by a member will have around 2,200 staff.
Each of the three international airports -Dhaka, Chittagong, and Sylhet - and the Cox's Bazar Airport, which would also be upgraded to international standards, will get
an executive director under the security department.
Officers from the air force will serve as executive directors on deputation.
Caab officials said there would be around 60 posts for directors and superintendent engineers, who would be ranked on a par with the directors.
The posts of directors will be filled up either by promotion or from officers from the air force on deputation. The posts of around 2,200 aviation security guards will also be filled up either from the existing staff or from the air force personnel, the officials informed.
At present, there are only 921 security guards to maintain security at the four airports of the country.