Staff Reporter :
The government has curtailed the power of two of its ministers, five months into the third straight government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Tajul Islam, previously Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, will now head the Local Government Division only.
Mustafa Jabbar, a technocrat and previously Minister for Post, Telecommunications and ICT, will now head the Post and Telecommunication Division only.
From now on, State Minister Junaid Ahmed
Palak will be heading the ICT division, and State Minister Swapan Bhattachariya, will head Rural Development and Cooperatives Division.
Additionally, Md Murad Hasan, previously State Minister for Health, has been reappointed as the State Minister for Ministry of Information.
Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division of the developments confirmed it to The New Nation.
The Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification to the effect, signed by Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam.
This was for the first time prime minister Sheikh Hasina reorganised her cabinet she formed on January 7 this year for the third consecutive term.
The government has curtailed the power of two of its ministers, five months into the third straight government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Tajul Islam, previously Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, will now head the Local Government Division only.
Mustafa Jabbar, a technocrat and previously Minister for Post, Telecommunications and ICT, will now head the Post and Telecommunication Division only.
From now on, State Minister Junaid Ahmed
Palak will be heading the ICT division, and State Minister Swapan Bhattachariya, will head Rural Development and Cooperatives Division.
Additionally, Md Murad Hasan, previously State Minister for Health, has been reappointed as the State Minister for Ministry of Information.
Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division of the developments confirmed it to The New Nation.
The Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification to the effect, signed by Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam.
This was for the first time prime minister Sheikh Hasina reorganised her cabinet she formed on January 7 this year for the third consecutive term.
