UP secretaries want job regularisation
Union Parishad secretaries demand regularisation of their jobs and upgradation of status to second class officer at a sit-in before Jaitya Press Club in the capital yesterday.Photo: STAR
Union Parishad (UP) secretaries yesterday reiterated their demands to regularise the jobs of 4,545 of them and upgrade their status to second class officer, saying such measures have remained unimplemented for 38 years. The respective ministries pay 75 percent of their remuneration while the rest comes from the upazila parishad's income, which is irregular for poor earnings and is almost never realised, they claimed. “The Bangabandhu government in 1974 declared to gradually regularise our jobs, but the later governments paid no attention, including the incumbent Awami League-led government,” said Bangladesh Union Parishad Secretary Samity President Md Sohelur Rahman. The secretaries were addressing a sit-in the samity organised before the capital's Jaitya Press Club. On January 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the local government to hold public examinations to regularise the secretaries' jobs and to take steps to upgrade their status, said the samity General Secretary Asaduzzaman Asad. “The direction has not been implemented for unknown reasons,” he said. On July 2, the secretaries dispatched a memorandum to the Prime Minister's Office stating their demands and arranged human chains before press clubs in 64 district headquarters. The samity leaders declared to hold a fast-unto-death programme on Central Shahid Minar premises from November 18 if their demands were not realised.
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