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Kabir Bin Anwar new Cabinet Secretary

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 12 December 2022

Staff Reporter :
The government has appointed Water Resources Ministry’s Senior Secretary Kabir Bin Anwar as new Cabinet Secretary of the administration.
The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification appointing him as new Cabinet Secretary on Sunday.
Kabir Bin Anwar will replace Khandker Anwarul Islam, whose contractual appointment tenure as Cabinet Secretary will expire on December 15 this year. The new Cabinet Secretary will take his charge on the day.
According to Public Administration Ministry sources, his service age of 59 will come to end on January 4 next year. As a result, he will get only 19 days to serve the post, if the government doesn’t extend his service period on contract.
Sources in the Public Administration Ministry officials said, Kabir Bin Anwar is an admin cadre officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) seventh batch. He joined in the civil service on February 15, 1988 as an assistant commissioner and served different positions of the government’s central and field levels offices.
He had served as the Director and Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) during his service period. Besides, he has served in different positions of the Home Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry and Bangladesh Embassy in Netherlands’ Hague and field administrations Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) and Upazila Magistrate.
He is born on January 4, 1964 in Sirajganj district. His father Anwar Hossain was a valiant freedom fighter. During his student life, Kabir Bin Anwar was involved with student politics.
However, outgoing Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has been appointed as Alternative Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to work in its headquarters. He will join his new assignment handing over the charge to the new Cabinet Secretary.
Meanwhile, Petrobangla Chairman (Additional Secretary) Nazmul Ahsan has been made secretary to the Water Resources Ministry. Another notification was in this regards. Before his new assignment, he was promoted to the rank of a Secretary.