Government officials and educational cadres in the Bangladesh civil service strongly disagree with the recommendations made by the Public Administration Reform Commission.

Administration officials said they would not follow the recommendation to appoint 50 percent of assistant secretaries among administration executives and 50 percent among other executives.

Meanwhile, education sector officials said they do not agree with the recommendation proposed by the commission to remove education and health cadres from the cadre system.

Earlier yesterday (December 17), Commission head Abdul Mueed Chowdhury and Member-Secretary of the Commission and Principal Secretary, Ministry of Public Administration, Md Mokhles Ur Rahman, presented some recommendations at a meeting of exchange of views with journalists from the ministry.

The recommendations include: promotions to the posts of Deputy Secretary and Additional Secretary through examinations, allocation of 50% of Deputy Secretary posts to administration cadres and an additional 50% to civil servants of other cadres, keeping education and health executives away from the executive system, eliminating the police. verification system during recruitment in government jobs and separating Cumilla and Faridpur into separate divisions.

The Commission is expected to submit its recommendations to the government by December 31.

Right after the Commission meeting, the Bangladesh Administrative Services Association (BASA) held an emergency meeting at the Bangladesh Institute of Administration and Management (BIAM) Auditorium in the capital last night (December 17), during which officials disagreed with the Commission’s recommendation and stated that they wanted to allocate 75 percent of the assistant secretary positions to themselves and 25 percent to state officials. other executives, an official said administrative under cover of anonymity.

The position of administration officials will be presented today (December 18) through a press release, BASA secretary general and planning commission member Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman told Prothom Alo.

According to the Ministry of Public Administration, 1,599 civil servants currently work as assistant secretaries.

Meanwhile, many education sector officials reacted to the Commission’s recommendation on social media, with one writing: “I thought discrimination between managers would be eliminated. But now they are trying to completely remove the framework of education.”

In a statement released Wednesday, the BCS General Education Association, a platform for education officials, rejected the Commission’s recommendation to separate the education cadre from the executive service.