The government has promoted five grade-1 government officials to the rank of secretary.
The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Thursday. The order will come into effect soon.
According to the notification, Dr Amitabh Sarker, chairman of the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) was made chairman (secretary) of Land Appeal Board while Dr Shahnaz Arefin, additional secretary of cabinet Division became the secretary of the Statistics and Information Division.
Besides, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman, director (additional secretary) of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), was made secretary of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), and Md Khalilur Rahman, divisional commissioner (additional secretary) Dhaka, got promoted to secretary of the Post and Telecommunication Division.
Kazi Enamul Hasan, additional secretary of the Economic Relations Division, was made secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and Suleman Khan, additional secretary of the Commerce Ministry, became chairman of the Land Reforms Board.