bdnews24.com :
The Ministry of Public Administration is yet to finalise the Bangladesh Civil Service Act that was provisionally endorsed by the cabinet two years ago.
Ministry officials say that nothing much is being done currently in order to finalise the draft which contradicts the statement of State Minister Begum Ismat Ara Sadique that a commission is working on the law that is expected to be finalised before the expiry of the Awami League’s tenure.
The cabinet approved the draft of Bangladesh Civil Service Act in 2015.
The law makes a clearance from the government mandatory to arrest public servants on criminal charges before a chargesheet is prepared. Last year, the cabinet ordered the ministry to review its clauses after it was submitted for final approval on Nov 24. One official of the ministry, requesting not to be named, told bdnews24.com that rules and executive orders are repetitively made to control civil servants whereas a law should be in place to decide their appointments, promotion, holidays, discipline, evaluation, career planning, training and retirement as per the constitution. After exchanging views with the Career Planning and Training Unit of the ministry on Aug 22, State Minister Ismat ordered officials to take prompt steps to formulate the act.
“A committee is reviewing two/three previous policies. The draft is in the making, based on the analysis,” State Minister Ismat told bdnews24.com. “We wish to get it finalised before the expiry of the current parliament.”
The government first drafted the public servants’ act in 2010 only to scrap it after protests from public administration officials. A new draft was made in 2012, but one quarter opposed it again as it had a provision for ‘outsourcing’. The latest draft was finalised in a meeting of a committee on administrative development on Aug 3, 2014 before it was endorsed by the cabinet.
The Ministry of Public Administration is yet to finalise the Bangladesh Civil Service Act that was provisionally endorsed by the cabinet two years ago.
Ministry officials say that nothing much is being done currently in order to finalise the draft which contradicts the statement of State Minister Begum Ismat Ara Sadique that a commission is working on the law that is expected to be finalised before the expiry of the Awami League’s tenure.
The cabinet approved the draft of Bangladesh Civil Service Act in 2015.
The law makes a clearance from the government mandatory to arrest public servants on criminal charges before a chargesheet is prepared. Last year, the cabinet ordered the ministry to review its clauses after it was submitted for final approval on Nov 24. One official of the ministry, requesting not to be named, told bdnews24.com that rules and executive orders are repetitively made to control civil servants whereas a law should be in place to decide their appointments, promotion, holidays, discipline, evaluation, career planning, training and retirement as per the constitution. After exchanging views with the Career Planning and Training Unit of the ministry on Aug 22, State Minister Ismat ordered officials to take prompt steps to formulate the act.
“A committee is reviewing two/three previous policies. The draft is in the making, based on the analysis,” State Minister Ismat told bdnews24.com. “We wish to get it finalised before the expiry of the current parliament.”
The government first drafted the public servants’ act in 2010 only to scrap it after protests from public administration officials. A new draft was made in 2012, but one quarter opposed it again as it had a provision for ‘outsourcing’. The latest draft was finalised in a meeting of a committee on administrative development on Aug 3, 2014 before it was endorsed by the cabinet.
