Officials of 25 cadres reject quota in dy secy promotions
Staff Reporter :
Terming the proposed quota in deputy secretary promotions ‘anti-people’, the Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council has vowed not to accept it.
It is ‘ridiculous and illogical’ to propose 50 per cent of deputy secretary posts to admin officials and the remaining 50 per cent to 25 other cadres during promotions, it said at a press conference held at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Saturday.
The Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Parishad, an umbrella organisation for the 25 BCS cadres that are waging the ongoing challenge to the all-powerful Administration cadre’s long-standing domination of public sector jobs.
All cadre officers under the Council’s membership will be forced to go on a continuous programme, including strikes, if what they call ‘unfair’ dismissal orders, are not withdrawn within a week.
“Although the advisers have assured us, the temporary suspension is still ongoing without taking any effective action in this regard,” they said, at the press conference.
The Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Parishad also expressed , the temporary suspension of the other cadre who made adverse remarks against each other on Face book centering the inter-cadre conflict following the recommendations of the public administration reform commission is biased,”
They said recently the Administration Cadre Association organized a rally in Dhaka and gave an ultimatum to the Public Administration Reform Commission and at that time and later, they directed various insults at the members of other cadres.
Before this, they surrounded the Ministry of Public Administration and created chaos. In view of this, members of the 25 cadres included in the council started exchanging statements with members of the administration cadre on social media.
“It is being observed with deep concern that BCS cadre officers working in various ministries/organizations under the Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Parishad are being suspended in large numbers for expressing their opinions on social media.
Issuing such a notification without any reasoned notice on a trivial pretext is highly undesirable and undesirable,” they also said.
Saying that suspending employees from their jobs without giving them an opportunity to defend themselves is against fundamental rights and service rules, he said some of the victims are in fact highly skilled and talented officers in their respective fields. The members of the Parishad are angry at being dismissed in this way without giving them an opportunity to defend themselves.
The Parishad believes that the current interim government was formed through a spontaneous mass uprising of the students, with the conviction of building a discrimination-free Bangladesh where individual freedoms reign supreme.
The Parishad has strongly protested against the violation of freedom of expression and the right to express opinions during the tenure of the government in office.
They also said the Parishad is assisting the government in properly completing all the reforms it has undertaken, including the formation of a people-friendly civil service.
“If such temporary suspensions continue, there will be extreme dissatisfaction in the civil service, which may embarrass the government. In this situation, we request that the temporary suspension orders already issued by various ministries be withdrawn and the complaint be dismissed,” they added.
On the other hand, although there are similar complaints against the Administration cadre, the Ministry of Public Administration has not taken any action in this regard, they claimed.
The ‘Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Parishad’ and the concerned cadre associations have informed the advisers of various ministries at various levels regarding such ‘unfair aggression’ by the Administration cadre, and have requested them to withdraw this unfair order.
They also regretted that the demands of their 25 cadres were not reflected in the report presented by the Public Administration Reform Commission.
“We had earlier mentioned that it is not possible to present a proposal for the formation of a non-discriminatory state by the biased Public Administration Reform Commission. Our fears have been correct. We reject the vague report and anti-people proposals of the Reform Commission,” they said.
Coordinator of the Parishad Shokawt Hossain read out a written speech at the press conference.