Staff Reporter :
The government has promoted 256 senior assistant secretaries to the rank of deputy secretary, raising its number to 1790 now.
The Public Administration Ministry issued two gazette notifications on the promotions on Thursday.
Of the newly promoted officers, 180 were from the BCS administration cadre, mainly belonging to the 25th Bangladesh Civil Service batch, and the rest from other cadres, including education, health, information, agriculture and livestock.
With the latest promotions in the civil bureaucracy, the number of deputy secretaries had gone twice
The government has promoted 256 senior assistant secretaries to the rank of deputy secretary, raising its number to 1790 now.
The Public Administration Ministry issued two gazette notifications on the promotions on Thursday.
Of the newly promoted officers, 180 were from the BCS administration cadre, mainly belonging to the 25th Bangladesh Civil Service batch, and the rest from other cadres, including education, health, information, agriculture and livestock.
With the latest promotions in the civil bureaucracy, the number of deputy secretaries had gone twice
the number of approved posts for them in the organogram, a senior official concerned said.
On September 20, at least 154 deputy secretaries were promoted to the rank of joint secretary, raising the number to 759 against 350 posts in the approved structure.
Earlier on August 29, the government promoted 154 joint secretaries to the rank of additional secretaries making the figure at least five times higher of the approved structure for the senior level, said officials.
