Prospective DCs being sorted out
The establishment ministry is preparing a fit-list of deputy commissioners (DCs), as the government plans to rearrange the field-level administration in a couple of months.
About 300 deputy secretaries are being interviewed to single out qualified ones for the list, according to the ministry sources.
The interviewees are mostly drawn from the 10th and 11th batches of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS). Of them, the establishment ministry interviewed 176 officers on February 2, 3, and 6.
Of them already interviewed, 50 are from the 9th batch, 105 from 10th batch, 14 from 1985 batch, and 17 from 1986 batch.
Ten more officers of 10th batch will face the interview board today (Tuesday) while 107 officers of 11th batch will appear at the interview board on Wednesday.
Cabinet Secretary M Abdul Aziz heads the interview board comprised of home, land, and establishment secretaries. The interview is taking place at the Cabinet Division of the Secretariat.
“The fresh fit-list is being prepared as most officers of the old list have been posted to different districts over the last three months,” an establishment ministry officer told The Daily Star yesterday.
“The rest of the officers in the list can't be made DCs as they have crossed 50 years of age, a barrier to becoming DC,” he said. He added that the new list will be of more than 100 officers from which the government officers would post them as DCs in future.
Usually good officers are made DCs as they, apart from their routine works, play crucial role in implementing various development programmes, and deal with land disputes and law and order issues.
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