The government constituted five reform commissions to make the country鈥檚 electoral process, police administration, judiciary, anti-corruption watchdog and public administration more people oriented, accountable, efficient and neutral.
The cabinet division issued separate gazette notifications to this end following the advisers鈥� council meeting at chief adviser鈥檚 office in Dhaka on Thursday.
Each of the commissions will have representation of the students, though their name is yet to be announced.
According to the notifications, the commissions was set to start function from the same day and submit their reports to the chief adviser within next 90 days.
In his address to the nation on September 11, chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus announced the formation of six commissions to reform the electoral system, police, judiciary, public administration, the constitution and the anti-corruption body.
The government, however, formed five commissions so far.
Electoral reform commission will be led by Badiul Alam Majumdar of SHUJAN, citizens for good governance. Its members are local government and election affairs expert Tofail Ahmed, former additional secretary of the election commission secretariat Jesmin Tuli, election expert Md Abdul Alim, political analyst Zahed Ur Rahman, institutional reform expert Mir Nadia Nivin, electric voting and block-chain expert Mohammad Sadek Ferdus and a student representative.
Former secretary Safar Raj Hossain will lead the police reform commission while its members are additional home secretary (public security division) Abu Momtaj Sad Uddin Ahmed, director general of the department of narcotics control Mohammad Iqbal, former divisional commissioner Mohammad Harun Chowdhury, former additional inspector generals of police Sheikh Sajjad Ali and Md Golam Rasul, Dhaka University law department professor Shahnaz Huda, human rights activist ASM Nasiruddin Alan and a student representative.
Justice Shah Abu Naeem Mominur Rahman, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, will be the head of judiciary reform commission. Its members are retired High Court Judges Justice Emdadul Haque and Justice Farid Ahmed Shibli, Syed Aminul Islam, former district and sessions judge and former registrar general of Bangladesh Supreme Court, Masdar Hossain, former district and sessions judge, senior SC lawyer Tanim Hussain Shawn, Kazi Mahfuzul Haque Supan, associate professor of law department at Dhaka University and a student representative.
Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of the Transparency International Bangladesh, will lead the anti-corruption reform commission while its members are former comptroller and auditor general Masud Ahmed, Dhaka University public administration professor Mobasser Monem, professor Mostak Khan of University of London, Barrister Mahdin Choudhury, of Dhaka University law department professor Mahbubur Rahman, Supreme Court lawyer Farzana Sharmin and a student representative.
Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury, former adviser of the caretaker government, will lead the public administration reform commission. Its members are former secretaries Mohammad Tarek and Mohammad Ayub Mia, senior secretary of the public administration ministry Md Mokhles ur Rahman, former additional secretaries Md Hafizur Rahman and Rizwan Khayer, Dhaka University public administration professor Aka Firowz Ahmad and a student representative.
