The government yesterday appointed a new chairman for Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and reinstated the former chairman of Insurance Development & Regulatory Authority (IDRA) – both for three years.
Former chairman of National Housing Authority GM Jainal Abedin Bhuiyan has been made the new chairman of the city’s development regulator while former IDRA chairman M Shefaque Ahmed was reappointed, according to separate orders of the public administration ministry. The orders will be effective from their joining date. The officials will have to disconnect all relations with any other companies or organisations.
Former bureaucrat Jainal Abedin, who is now on post-retirement leave (PRL) as an additional secretary, will replace Nurul Huda.
The tenure of contractual appointment of Huda, a retired civil engineer who worked for the public works department, expires on April 20. Earlier, the government rejected Huda’s resignation several times and extended his contracts three times. He has been the Rajuk chairman for the last four years.
Meanwhile, the IDRA turned into a guardian-less entity after the end of three-year contract of Shefaque on January 26. Later, the government issued a circular bestowing the charges of the chairman to Md Fazlul Karim, the lone existing member of the authority.
The regulator requires at least three members out of its five posts, including the chairman, to hold a commission meeting, according to the IDRA Act.
The government established the IDRA in January 2011, replacing the Department of Insurance, to develop the insurance industry, by enacting an act in the parliament. Shefaque was the founder chairmen of the regulator.
