The superior selection board meets today to consider promoting 13 administration cadre additional secretaries as secretaries, officials said.
Most of them became additional secretaries, superseding several colleagues, after the Awami League led government came to power in January 2009.
The SSB would also consider the promotion of three senior officers of the forest department.
Cabinet secretary M Abdul Aziz would chair the meeting to be held at the Cabinet Division.
A Cabinet Division official said that the board would recommend promotion of additional secretaries, serving as acting secretaries.
Several superseded officers said that that they had been serving in the same position for more than 15 years, while their colleagues got promotion in last two years briefly serving as joint secretaries.
Now they would get another promotion to become secretaries, the highest position a civil servant aspires to reach.
The glaring discrepancy, they said, would require the superseded officers to mark time for how long no one knows.
Approximately, 13 additional secretaries are now functioning as acting secretaries of various ministries and divisions including, railway, labour and employment, environment and forest, disaster management and relief, cultural affairs, women and children affairs, liberation war affairs, information and communication technology, and social welfare.
The board would consider environment and forest ministry's proposal for promoting a number of conservators of forests to the deputy chief conservator of forest, officials said.
Meanwhile, a large number of officers, from senior assistant secretaries to joint secretaries, who feel they were left out earlier, are lobbying for promotions.
Source : New Age
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