Recruitment, appointment and promotion of government officers
O H Kabir, Dhaka
Over the past thirty years it has become a common phenomenon in our country to make large-scale, unreasonable and unjustified recruitment, appointment and promotion of government officers. We fail to understand what rules and regulations, formalities, O and M (Organisation and Method), modalities and criteria are followed and practised in these cases. Not to speak about the long tale and mystery of past three decades, let us discuss in brief the performance of our present government. During the last two years, 493 Senior Assistant Secretaries, 174 Deputy Secretaries and 97 Joint Secretaries have been promoted. On 27th August, 2003, 97 officials were promoted as Additional Secretary and 49 officials as Joint Secretary. Most of the officials have been made Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Establishment Ministry. We wonder if the above 146 posts of Additional Secretaries and Joint Secretaries were justified, necessary and sanctioned? What are the financial aspects involved in the promotion of these 146 officials? Would the Establishment Secretary kindly let us know, if he has taken prior approval from the ministry of finance for the financial expenses involved in respect of pay and allowances of these146 additional posts? We would highly appreciate if government rules and regulations are strictly followed and maintained by all concerned for creation of new posts, recruitment, appointment and promotion of government officers in the interest of public service.
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