The government has decided to overhaul the senior bureaucracy before the national elections 2018.
The Cabinet division has taken all preparations to reshuffle the high level administration.
According to sources, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has signed the file which will be notified soon.
Sources said Faiz Ahmed, Secretary, Medical Education and Family Welfare Division may be made the Secretary of the government's most important Public Administration Ministry.
On the other hand Mozammel Haque Khan, Senior Secretary of the Public Administration Ministry, may be made the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). He goes on voluntarily retirement four months before the time.
An official of Prime Minister's Office told the Daily Observer, the Prime Minister signed a major reversal in the administration. It will be gazetted soon.
According to sources the government will bring the changes to the important secretary posts in the election year. Especially, the Cabinet Division, Public Administration Ministry and other important ministries are likely to have a
new person in charge. The tenure of the incumbent Cabinet Secretary, Public Administration Secretary and other important secretaries will expire just before the elections.
Since the government will not be able to make the changes nearer the time of the national elections, it is planning to make the changes earlier.
Shamsur Rahman may be appointed Acting Secretary of the Disaster Management Ministry.
Former energy secretary Nazim Uddin is waiting to be appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. But this post is likely to go to NBR Chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan. In that case, current Finance Secretary Muslim Chowdhury may be made the NBR Chairman. The Secretary of Commerce Ministry is likely to become the Finance Secretary.
Before this, a reshuffle of the public administration, four secretaries have been transferred and four additional secretaries have been made acting secretaries on April 12.
Sources said Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) Chairman (secretary) Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem was made Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division, Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry Secretary SM Golam Faruk was made Rural Development and Co-operatives Division Secretary, Social Welfare Ministry Secretary Md Zillar Rahman was made Technical and Madrasa Education Division Secretary and Technical and Madrasa Education Division Secretary Md Alamgir was made Social Welfare Ministry Secretary, Security Service Department Additional Secretary Md Mohibul Haque was made Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry's Acting Secretary.
In another notification on that day Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Ministry Additional Secretary Md Kamal Uddin Talukder was made Director General of National Academy for Planning and Development (acting secretary rank), Primary and Mass Education Ministry's Additional Secretary Md Akram-Al-Hossain was made Chairman of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) and Additional Secretary of Agriculture Ministry Md Mosharraf Hossain was made BCS Administration Academy Rector (acting secretary rank).
Under the Election Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, the eleventh parliamentary elections will be held at the end of this year or early in 2019.
He said the present government's tenure will end on January 28 in 2019. So at the end of December or early in early 2019, the eleventh parliamentary election will be set. As part of this, the process of election will begin on October 30.
The last parliamentary elections were held on January 5, amid boycott by major political parties including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, under the Awami League-led administration without any major changes in the field administration, responsible for conducting the elections under the Election Commission.
The parliamentary polls were marked by low voter turnout and more than a half of the seats being elected unopposed.
