Promotion in Admin
'Govt to review mistake, if any'
The government will re-evaluate if any officers are left out in the Wednesday's promotion despite having genuine ground, the public administration secretary said yesterday.
“We will review again to see whether there are any mistakes in our evaluation or calculation,” Abdus Sobhan Sikder told reporters at his secretariat office.
In the biggest promotion spree in civil administration since the Awami League-led grand alliance assumed office in 2009, the government on Wednesday promoted 649 officers to the ranks of additional secretary, joint secretary and deputy secretary against no vacant posts.
About 430 deputy secretaries, joint secretaries and additional secretaries who were also eligible for promotion, have been ignored. Many of them expressed serious frustration of they were left out of promotion twice or thrice in the past.
Sikder, however, claimed that the promotion was given based on performance and merit. It will bring dynamism in the administration.
This kind of assurances was also given after the promotions made in 2009 and 2010 when a good number of deprived officers filed applications to reconsider their issue. But eventually, none of them was considered.
With the wholesale promotion, the civil administration now turns severely top-heavy as the number of officers already holding the three ranks are nearly double.
Currently, there are about 1,500 deputy secretaries against 830 approved posts, 500 joint secretaries against 250 posts and 148 additional secretaries against 108 approved posts.
Of the newly promoted officials, 127 joint secretaries have been elevated to the rank of additional secretary, 264 deputy secretaries to the post of joint secretary and 258 senior assistant secretaries to the post of deputy secretary. The promoted deputy secretaries are mostly from the 13th and 15th batches, joint secretaries are from the '82, '84 and '85 batches and additional secretaries are from the '82 and '84 batches of Bangladesh Civil Service.
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