The government is going to absorb a total of 1,120 non-cadre family planning officials, including 1055 medical officers and 54 assistant directors, to the cadre service.
The secretaries committee on administrative reform on Tuesday gave its approval to absorb those non-cadre officials as BCS family planning cadre officers.
The committee also approved the proposal to amend the Bangladesh Civil Service (Family Planning) Composition and Cadre Rules, 1985 and Bangladesh Civil Service (Age, Qualification and Examination for Direct Recruitment) Rules, 1982.
Cabinet Secretary and Chief of the committee Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan chaired the meeting held at the cabinet division conference room.
After the meeting, Mohammad Nazrul Islam, additional secretary to the cabinet division, said the committee had given its approval to upgrade and absorb those non-cadre officials as cadre officers.
He said: “The government has to bear no financial liability as the officials are now working in the family planning department and all of them have adequate qualification to be absorbed as cadre officers.”
According to the working paper of the secretaries committee meeting, a total of 1,120 non-cadre officials have been working in the Family Planning Department for a long time.
Of them 1,055 are medical officers and equivalent officers, 54 are assistant directors, two are deputy directors, one is a director, Mohammadpur fertility services and training centre’s director, five are medical officers, one is a principal and one is a lecturer of the Family Planning Inspectors Training Institute of Dhaka.
Nazrul Islam said as the officials are qualified to be cadre officers, the government has taken the decision.
