The government is set to complete recruitment of Class-I and Class-II category factory inspectors for the Directorate of Inspection of Factories and Establishment (DIFE) under the Ministry of Labour by mid-October to meet the demands of the International Labour Organisation and international buyers group.
The Bangladesh Public Service Commission has already called for an expression of interest from the qualified BCS aspirants who were not appointed in the cadre posts due to shortage of posts in the administration.
“The applications would be taken until September 30 by the PSC according to their requirement directorate. Scrutinising the applications, the PSC will recommend the DIFE authority to recruit the candidates in the vacant posts.
They will be recruited immediate after getting the recommendation,” DIFE Inspector General Syed Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune last week.
The government has already approved 575 factory inspector posts in the new organogram of the newly formed DIFE.
The DIFE already has 88 factory inspectors both Class-I and Class-II category. Of them, 39 inspectors have been working in the directorate and later, the DIFE recruited another 49 inspectors in three phases following the recommendation of the PSC.
Syed Ahmed said: “The DIFE intends to recruit more 233 factory inspectors for the directorate. It will be completed by mid-October according to the assurance of the PSC.”
“It will raise the number of factory inspectors into 321, though demand of the ILO and international buyers group is 222 at present. We want to make the DIFE as functional and use it to improve the standard of the sector,” he added.