Five secretaries sent into compulsory retirement
The interim government on Thursday sent five secretaries into compulsory retirement in the public interest under Section 45 of the Public Service Act.
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Personal secretary to energy adviser removed
Amid the criticism over the removal of two personal staff of two advisers from their posts, now the personal secretary to the energy, power and mineral resources adviser, Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, has been removed from his post, citing no reason.
Ex-secretary, principal among 11 sued
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against 11 people, including the former secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and former president of Ideal School and College, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman and the school鈥檚 former principal Shahana Ara Begum on charges of admitting 107 students to the school illegally...
PUBLIC ADMIN REFORM: Cluster-based ministries proposed
The public administration reform commission, in its full report published on Saturday, recommended cluster-based ministries to boost officials鈥� efficiency and skills.
PUBLIC ADMIN REFORMS: Ultimatum issued to revise recommendations
The Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council on Saturday issued a seven-day ultimatum demanding that the 50 per cent quota for the administration cadre in the deputy secretary pool, as recommended by the Public Administration Reform Commission, be scrapped...
Experts sceptical about success of provincial govt
A provincial government system, as proposed by the public administration reform commission on Wednesday, would create multi-dimensional complexities in the country鈥檚 unitary governance system, public administration experts have observed.
Yunus urges all to accept reform reports
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called upon all concerned to accept the reports of the reform commissions and come forward to implement those...
PUBLIC ADMIN REFORMS: Four provinces, capital city govt recommended
The public administration reform commission on Wednesday proposed major structural changes, including the creation of four provinces, two new administrative divisions and a 鈥榗apital city government鈥�...
Public admin, judiciary reform commissions submit report today
The public administration reform commission and the judiciary reform commission are going to hand over their reports with recommendations to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus today.
HC bans tree felling without approval
The High Court on Tuesday directed the public administration secretary to form district-level committees within seven days to curb widespread and unregulated tree felling in cities and towns across the country...
Admin cadre鈥檚 supremacy manifests fascism: speakers
Speakers at a seminar held in Dhaka on Saturday condemned arbitrary suspension of officials from education, health, fisheries and livestock cadres, and the public administration reform commission鈥檚 negligence in listening to the voice of those protesting against inter-cadre discrimination...
Govt forms three committees for senior officials鈥� recruitment, transfers
Bangladesh government has constituted three high-level committees to provide recommendations on recruitment, transfers, and discipline of senior officials under the ministry of public administration, including field administration, as well as senior officials in the police and ministry of foreign affairs....
Tension mounts among govt officers over reform
Administration cadre officials and other cadres are now facing off over the public administration reforms aimed at freeing the civil service from political influence and inter-cadre discrimination and making it more service-oriented.
Admin cadres demand resignation of Public Administration Reform Commission
Calling all members of the Public Administration Reform Commission 鈥榗ontroversial,鈥� BCS (Admin) Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd general secretary Mashiur Rahman has demanded the resignation of the commission.
Reform Proposals: Health, edn cadre officials planning to hold more protests
Officials of the health and education cadres are planning to make louder their protests against the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals, including separating the health and education sectors from the Bangladesh Civil Service, in the coming weeks...
Reform Commission: Admin, edn cadre officials oppose planned proposals
Administrative service officials and government college teachers have strongly criticised the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals that the commission has finalised for submitting to the interim government...
A welcome move to better health, education admin
A COUPLE of recommendations that the commission on public administration reforms, instituted in mid-September, says would make are a welcome move. The commission has said that it would recommend the separation of the health and the education cadre from other cadres the way the judicial cadre has been separated from the...
Health, edn to be separated from other cadres
The public administration reform commission would recommend that the government separate the health and education sectors from the cadre services and merge the remaining cadre services into five clusters.
Reform commission for determining promotion of deputy, joint secy based on exams
The Public Administration Reform Commission is set to recommend that no one be promoted to the positions of deputy secretary and joint secretary in the civil service without undergoing an examination, said commission chairman Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury.
BNP for action against corrupt officials
Bangladesh Nationalist Party in a series of recommendations to the public administration reform commission has sought action against party-biased and corrupt officials working in the administration in the past 16 years...
Deprived deputy secretaries from 25 cadres to be promoted
Deputy secretaries from 25 different cadres, who have been deprived of promotions, would receive their due advancements in December, said Md Obaidur Rahman, additional secretary of the recruitment, promotion, and transfer (APD) of the ministry of public administration on Tuesday...
Govt moves to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts
The ministry of public administration has directed the relevant ministries, departments, and organisations to take immediate steps to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts in government service...
鈥楾errible revolution鈥� if reforms fail: commission chief
Public Administration Reform Commission chief Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury on Tuesday warned that a terrible revolution might happen in future if reforms at every level of administration were not ensured...
Reforms without behavioural changes unsustainable: seminar
Academics of public administration discipline expressed their concerns over the implementation and sustainability of the state reform procedures without citizens鈥� behavioural change...
Railways secretary made OSD, positions of 3 more changed
The government on Wednesday made railways ministry secretary Abdul Baki an officer on special duty at the public administration ministry, while also changing the positions of a senior secretary and two more secretaries...
Pub admin reform commission鈥檚 questionnaire questioned
Citizens have criticised the survey questionnaire the public administration reform commission has put online seeking citizen opinion, saying the questions are too generic and...
Bangladesh鈥檚 public administration reform commission gets 3 more members
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has reconstituted the public administration reform commission with the inclusion of three new members, raising the total number of commission members to 11.
Depoliticising the administration
THE public administration ministry is called the nucleus of the secretariat. The people working in public administration have, however, always created a kind of power circle. In most cases...
Secretary Mokhlesur terms report on bribery in DC appointment 鈥榖aseless鈥�
Bangladesh鈥檚 public administration ministry senior secretary Md Mokhlesur Rahman on Thursday dismissed the allegation of bribery related to deputy commissioner appointment as 鈥榖aseless鈥� and labelled a recent article published in a national daily as 鈥榝ake鈥�.
Bangladesh observes World Tourism Day 2024
Bangladesh observed 鈥榃orld Tourism Day 2024鈥� under the initiative of civil aviation and tourism ministry in alignment with global celebrations on Friday.