The bureaucrats who were deprived of promotion and kept on special duty for a long time has given up hopes to get promoted and fresh postings during the present polls-time government.
The civil servants have decided to further meet the cabinet secretary and senior secretary to the Public Administration Ministry and wait for its initiative.
According to the ministry, there are around 800 officers on special duty (OSDs) in the civil administration now.
Of them, around 60-70 officials are secretaries and assistant secretaries, who have been kept on the special duty for six to seven years.
Most of the special duty officers who were not entrusted with any assignment for a long time were deprived of promotion. On the other hand the junior officers who were working under them had been promoted.
The deprived officers said they gave up hopes since it was a polls-time government.
They vented their frustration that this polls-time government would do nothing for them.
It was the same government of the ruling Awami League and its allies that kept them on special duty and deprived them of promotion for a long time.
The ’82 batch’s Joint Secretary Bijon Kanti Sarker who had been kept on special duty said, “We were hopeful to get promotion and fresh posting after waiting around six to seven years, but are now frustrated.”
“We called upon the secretaries to take the matter of our promotion into consideration, but to no avail. So there is nothing to do but wait till the government decides to send us into retirement,” he said.
“We are waiting for the government decision. We will meet them again.”
“The government is not taking any policy or administrative decisions now. It will be considered after a new government takes office,” said Abdus Sobhan Sikder, senior secretary of the Public Administration Ministry.
A section of bureaucrats met with the cabinet secretary and senior secretary of the Public Administration Ministry twice to resolve the issue of promotions and subsequent postings in December.