The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of Surplus Public Servants Absorption Act- 2014, subject to the vetting of the law ministry.
The approval was given at the weekly cabinet meeting held at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
The law, which has been formulated to legalise the repealed ordinances promulgated during two military regimes, will be sent to the parliament for passage after getting approval of the law ministry.
“We have to prepare a fresh draft of the law as the court has declared illegal the acts of two military rulers,” Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting.
The new law has been enacted in Bangla. There is no major change in the new law except linguistic changes, he added.
Bhuiyan said the government usually announces public servants as surplus during reforms of the administration.
He said the public servants can be declared surplus for dissolving any public offices or posts and reorganising the structures or if any post seems unnecessary. The government usually places the surplus public servants under the public administration ministry.
“The ministry gives them posting. It has the authority to allow any other ministry to assign the surplus public servants,” he said, adding that they have enough vacancies than the surplus public servants.
“But a surplus public servant has no option to choose another post after getting posting. Once anyone is posted, it is final as his new assignment.”
Meanwhile, the cabinet was informed of the outcomes of the BIMSTEC meeting held in Myanmar and the governing council meeting of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) held in Italy recently. Seen by Mizan.