CG won't cancel any more contractual appointments
A few chief engineers may be exception
Staff Correspondent
The caretaker government will not cancel further contractual appointments of government officials except a few chief engineers working in different sectors."The possibility of cancelling more contracts is very thin as most of the remaining contractually appointed officials are technicians and have no influence on holding the general election," Establishment Secretary AFM Solaiman Chowdury told reporters at his office yesterday. Different political parties, especially the Awami League, have long been demanding cancellation of more than 200 contractual appointments. The caretaker government has so far cancelled the contracts of 46 officials. The establishment ministry, however, reinstated eight officials soon after cancelling their contracts on their plea that the cancellation process was not followed "rightly". According to the rule, the ministry has to issue a notification three months before cancelling the contract of any officer at the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commission, Solaiman said. The establishment ministry is also considering promotion of officers at various levels who are eligible but were deprived of due promotion during the tenure of the immediate past BNP-led four-party government. Solaiman said cases of more than 200 senior assistant secretaries, 40-45 joint secretaries and 30-35 additional secretaries will be considered at a meeting of the Superior Selection Board (SSB). "Every officer will be assessed individually to identify the deprived ones and the reason why they were deprived," he added. A meeting of the SSB was called following demonstrations of a section of aggrieved cadre officials who claimed that more than 1,000 officers at different levels were deprived of due promotions and postings during the last five years. The SSB meeting was adjourned on Sunday and will resume soon to complete the process. Meanwhile, the establishment ministry has found its own officers involved in the much-talked-about forgery of the annual credential report (ACR) in 2005 and decided to file divisional cases against them. More than 100 ACRs of government officers were tampered in various ways, including increasing marks, to give promotion.
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