Bangladesh Civil Service cadre officials under the banner of ‘Inter-Cadre Council to Eliminate Discrimination’ said on Saturday that they would organise a rally in Dhaka on January 4, protesting at the public administration reform commission’s planned proposals.
The platform represents officials from all BCS cadres except administration.
Talking to journalists on December 17, the reform commission chief, Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury, said that the commission would recommend individual service-oriented commissions like the Judicial Service Commission, for the health and education sectors.
The commission would also recommend that 50 per cent of the promotions to the position of deputy secretary be reserved for officials from the administration cadre and the rest would be filled from the 25 other cadres.
A press release, signed by council’s coordinator Mohammad Mofizur Rahman, said that BCS cadres other than administration considered the reform commission’s planned proposal ‘discriminatory’ and part of ‘conspiracy’.
Citing that the senior service pool must not be confined to any specific cadre, the release said, ‘The commission’s recommendations, if implemented, will create serious chaos in the civil services.’
It also said that the aggrieved BCS officials in groups would publish separate cadre-specific protest statements on December 23, refrain from work for one hour from 11:00am to 12:00pm on December 24 and organise human-chain programme in front of job stations from 11:00am to 12:00pm on December 26 and hold divisional rally before the Dhaka Rally on January 4.
