Jumbangla Desk: 1,645 government officials who were demoted during the previous autocracy Hasina government, had OSD for a long time, were sent to compulsory retirement and were deprived in various ways are going to open their heads. The employing organization is thinking of giving various facilities including promotion to these officers. Details from Kalbela's report are given below-
However, those who have specific allegations of corruption will not get this opportunity. In the meantime, approval has been sought from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to promote 99 officials from 9 important government ministries and departments to verify corruption allegations.
Apart from this, the corruption-related information of 1 thousand 546 officials has been requested from the Ministry of Public Administration. After that, a letter was sent from the ACC to the director of the departmental office and the deputy director of the district office. Copies of these letters have come to hand from multiple ministries, directorates, various government institutions and related sources. If everything goes well, the fortunes of these officials can be revealed quickly. You can return to the important duties of the state. Along with this, the delayed promotion will also be found.
It is known that earlier during the period of dictatorship, the Ministry of Public Administration took the initiative of redressing the officials who were deprived of their jobs in various ways. For this purpose, after the formation of the committee, applications are invited from the deprived officials. Those who feel deprived and hope for redress, are asked to apply by September 30. A notification was published by the Ministry of Public Administration for this purpose last September. In the notification, under the Ministry of Public Administration, officials who have been deprived of employment from 2009 to August 4 this year are asked to apply. Apart from this, the government formed another committee to review the application and give recommendations. In the meantime, nearly 4,000 officials have applied claiming their deprivation.
The documents say that on November 3, the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration. Md. In a letter signed by Moniruzzaman, five types of information of 1 thousand 546 officers were requested from the ACC. The letter says, 'In view of the above matters and sources, it is being informed that among the officials who were deprived of employment in various ways during the period from 2009 to August 4, 2024 under the Ministry of Public Administration and who retired during the said period, there are corruption-related complaints or cases against them. ACC needs updated information on the matter.' The letter asks for the name and contact number of the specific officer, case number, court name, subject matter or type of case and the latest status. The names of 1 thousand 546 officials identified by the Ministry of Public Administration, their contacts and other information are attached to the letter.
In view of the letter from the Ministry of Public Administration, a letter was sent from the head office of the ACC on November 11 to the director of the agency's divisional office and the deputy director of the integrated district office Dhaka-1, Dhaka-2, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Kishoreganj, Tangail, Faridpur, Gopalganj and Madaripur. The letter instructed to send six types of information by November 14 in soft copy by email and hard copy by post. Letters sent from several district offices to ACC head office have been received by Kalbela. It has been seen there that no information of corruption has been found against any of the 1 thousand 645 officials sent from various departments and ministries including the Ministry of Public Administration. However, it was not possible to verify the information of all the offices.
According to the documents, among the 1,645 officials are one person from the Finance Department, 16 from the Ministry of Social Welfare, 25 from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, 8 from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, three from the Internal Resources Department, one from the Ministry of Shipping, seven from the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Transport And eight people from the highway department, 30 people from the local government department and 1 thousand 546 people from the public administration ministry.
It can be seen from the documents, in a letter sent from the Ministry of Finance to the ACC, it is said that the system analyst engineer of the office of the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGA). Clearance has been sought to find out whether there is any pending case against Atiyar Rahman in order to promote him to the post of Senior System Analyst. The letter sent by the Internal Resources Department of the Ministry of Finance has asked whether there is any corruption-related information against the three people initially selected for appointment as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Minister (Customs) in Brussels, Belgium. Those three officials are Dhaka South Customs Excise and VAT Commissioner Mohammad Faizur Rahman, Customs Rebate and Extradition Commissioner Mohammad Akbar Hossain and Customs Bond Commissionerate Dhaka South Commissioner Khaled Mohammad Abu Hossain. The Ministry of Social Welfare sent a letter on October 24 asking for information related to the corruption case of eight deputy directors and eight assistant directors of the Social Services Department. They are Deputy Director Moha. Sadiqul Haq, Sheela Rani Das, Ratan Kumar Halder, Adil Mottakeen, Al-Mamun Talukder, SM Anwarul Karim, Md. Safayet Hossain Talukder, Md. Touhidul Islam, assistant director Dr. Abdullah Al Firoz, Mohammad Ali, SM Fazlul Karim, Sheikh Khalil Al Rashid, Shahidul Islam. Md. Abu Taher, Md. Machum Ali and Md. Jasim Uddin ABM Sadiqur Rahman, Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Social Welfare, confirmed the matter of the letter.
A letter was given to ACC from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief on October 29. It is said that there is a provision for promotion in the recruitment rules of the Directorate of Disaster Management from the post of Feeder Upazila Project Implementation Officer (Class I) to the post of Relief and Rehabilitation Officer. Therefore, information is sought regarding corruption allegations regarding 25 officers holding the post of feeder for promotion to the post of District Rehabilitation Officer. The 25 officers are Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Badruzzaman, Md. Alauddin, Muhammad Abu Ehsan, Sheikh A. Kader, Md. Monowarul Islam, AKM Shah Alam, Md. Ziaur Rahman, Muhammad Mubinur Rahman, Mohammad Mazharul Islam, Md. Abdul Matin, Md. Mansurul Haque, Kazi Imtiaz Asfaq, Md. Riazul Islam, Md. Jinder Ali, Md. Amirul Islam, Md. Sultan Hossain, Md. Chanaullah, Mahidul Alam and SM Shamim Ehsan.
Private secretary of the secretary confirmed the matter. Jahangir Alam said, 'Corruption-related information of 25 officials has been sought for promotion. We have not received the report yet. If the report is received, action will be taken accordingly.'
On October 24, the Ministry of Youth and Sports issued a letter seeking information on the promotion of eight officials from Deputy Coordinator to Coordinator and Community Development Officer, Senior Trainer/Instructor (Animal Husbandry/Fisheries) to Deputy Coordinator. These officers are Deputy Coordinator of Jhenaidah Youth Training Center. Israfil Haque, Jamalpur Youth Training Center Deputy Coordinator Mahbubur Rahman, Khagrachari Youth Training Center Deputy Coordinator Md. Iqbal Kawsar, Senior Instructor (Fisheries) of Shariatpur Youth Training Center and affiliated Gazipur Youth Training Center Razia Khatun, Community Development Officer of Lalmonirhat Youth Training Center. Ayub Ali, Bogra Senior Trainer (Fisheries) Mizanur Rahman, Bhola Senior Trainer (Attached Central Human Resource Development Centre, Savar) Md. Arifur Rahman and Savar Training Center Senior Instructor Anjuman Ara Begum.
Shahana Sultana, deputy secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, said, "I wrote a letter asking whether eight of our officers have corruption-related complaints. We have also received a reply from the ACC. There are no complaints about our officers.'
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Director Dr. Md. Information about Ziaul Islam has been requested. Similarly, the information of seven officials has been sought from the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock for promotion to the post of Chief Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute. Information of eight officials has been sought for promotion to the posts of General Manager and Manager (Operations) of BRTC in the Road Transport and Bridges Department. In this to promote the position of general manager. The information of Moniruzzaman Babu has been requested. The remaining seven officers are Pariyaan Officer Ashish Kumar Das, Shahinul Islam, Deputy Manager (Operation). Raju Molla, Jhumur Ishrat, administrative officer Debashish Majumdar and administrative officer Md. Abdul Barek. Information is sought for 30 persons for promotion to the vacant post of Superintending Engineer (Grade-IV) under the organizational structure of Directorate of Local Government Engineering from Local Government Department. Apart from this, updated information on corruption of 1 thousand 546 officials has been requested from the Ministry of Public Administration. However , all the officials wanted by the Ministry of Public Administration are retired. Among them are 17 retired secretaries. Retired Additional Secretaries, Joint Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Senior Assistant Secretaries and several Grade-I officers are in this list.
If you want to know about this, ACC Deputy Director (Public Relations) Md. Aktarul Islam said, 'I am not aware of this matter.'
