Former and present officials from the administrative cadre are holding a rally at BIAM Foundation auditorium in the capital protesting the recommendation placed before the government to reduce deputy secretary posts by 25% to 50% for the administrative officials.
Former and present officials from the administrative cadre are holding a rally at BIAM Foundation auditorium in the capital protesting the recommendation placed before the government to reduce deputy secretary posts by 25% to 50% for the administrative officials.
The protest rally widens a rift with officials from at least 25 other cadres who on Tuesday observed a one-hour “pen-down strike” demanding the removal of all quotas in the deputy secretary posts, and have called for staging a human chain Thursday.
At present, 75% of all deputy secretary posts are reserved for administrative officials, and the remaining 25% for officials from other cadres.
The public administration reform commission is set to ask the Prof Yunus-led interim government to reduce the quota for administrative officials to 50%, and raise the quota for other officials to 50%, said the commission chief Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury last week.
Administrative officials claim the proposal is “discriminatory, illogical and conspiratorial.”
To this end, the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association and the BCS (Admin) Welfare Multipurpose Co-Operative Society jointly launched a rally at BIAM auditorium at 11am Wednesday.
The participants protested against a “deep-rooted conspiracy to unsettle the country by diverting the focus of the administrative reform initiative.”
On Sunday, the administrative officials staged a major gathering at the Bangladesh Secretariat to press home their demand.
The administrative officials also demand retaining the secretary posts at all ministries for themselves instead for the relevant cadre officials, as opposed to the demand made by 25 cadres’ officials.
