Power Sector: One of authors of IMED report suspended
The public administration ministry has suspended its Deputy Secretary Mohammad Mahidur Rahman, one of the authors of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division's much-talked-about report on the power sector.
On Monday, he was made an Officer on Special Duty (OSD), considered a punishment post.
The report, which was uploaded to the IMED website on May 25, called the practice of paying capacity charges to power plants a "model of robbery" and is a reflection of ill-motivated contracts.
After a few media outlets ran pieces on the IMED report, titled "Research Report on Implementation Progress of Projects in Power Sector", the planning ministry division quietly revised the report, deleting the section that was critical of power sector's business model.
In a rejoinder to media outlets, the division said that the opinions made in the report were not of the IMED's.
Mahidur, who was a director of the IMED Sector-1, wrote the report, while SM Hamidul Haque, director general of the department, was the adviser.
Hamidul was made OSD on Sunday.
This correspondent asked public administration ministry Deputy Secretary (Discipline-1) Nurul Haque why Mahidur was suspended but Nurul refused to comment.
Mahidur is suspended as per section 12 (1) of the Employee Discipline and Appeal Rules-2018, read a notification issued on Tuesday.
A three-member probe body, led by Additional Secretary Gazi Md Saifuzzaman, was formed on July 11 to investigate how the report was published on the website.
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