High government officials at a seminar on Saturday demanded that reform of public administration uphold the spirit of student-mass uprising and that the interim government remove party-loyals from the administration.
Bangladesh Administrative Service Association organised the seminar at BIAM Foundation auditorium in Dhaka to discuss reform of administration in the present and future contexts.
Addressing as chief guest, chief adviser鈥檚 principal secretary Md Siraz Uddin Miah questioned partisanship of the government officers who facilitated dummy and rigged elections, looting and misrule in the past 15 years.
鈥楽till many of them are inheriting the legacy. They don鈥檛 have sympathy to the people who sacrificed their life and organs during the 2024 uprising,鈥� Siraz complained.
Promising that he would convey the messages from the seminar, the senior secretary to the public administration ministry, Md Mokhlesur Rahman, also the member secretary of the public administration reform commission, said, 鈥極nly an elected government can implement reform proposals.鈥�
The seminar began with presentation of keynotes by Public Private Partnership Authority鈥檚 chief executive officer Md Hafizur Rahman.
He said that merit-based evaluation in promotion and establishment of an internal anti-corruption cell or ethics committee would make civil service offices efficient and citizen-friendly.
He also requested the public administration reform commission to see the public opinions through the lenses of economics, politics and social science for ensuring 鈥榗ommon good鈥�.
In the seminar, several administration officers, who remained 鈥榩ersona non grata鈥� during Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 regime, shared their sad memories.
They said the interim government promoted some deprived administration officers but still had not posted them in the 鈥榬ight positions鈥�.
Senior secretary to public security division Mohammad Abdul Momen, deprived bureaucrats ABM Abdus Sattar, Harunuzzaman, KM Kabirul Islam, Alim Akhter Khan, among others, also spoke.