Government officers and employees on Thursday expressed resentment against the draft recommendations shared with reporters on Tuesday, by the Public Admin Reform Commission led by former Secretary Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury.
Especially, admin cadre officers expressed their anger and demanded withdrawal of the recommendations.
Officers in health and education cadres also expressed their frustration over the recommendations.
However, the officers of 25 other cadres expressed their satisfaction over the recommendations and urged the government to implement them.
Exchanging views with the reporters who cover the Secretariat beat Muyeed Chowdhury said on Tuesday that the commission is likely to recommend to the government not to promote deputy secretaries and joint secretaries unless they appear in promotion test.
He said that the commission will also recommend keeping 50 per cent posts for administrative cadre officers and 50 per cent posts for officers in 25 cadres.
Now, administrative care officers get 75 per cent posts while other cadres get 25 per cent.
The commission is planning to recommend to create five clusters comprising other cadres.
Immediately after the commission announced the plan, officers of admin, health and education cadres demanded scrapping the plan.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) demanded further review of the plan.
The association said that the recommendation was not prepared taking the opinion of deputy secretaries waiting to get promotion.
As a result, the news has given a wrong message to the field level officers and created anger and adverse reaction among them, it said, requesting for correction of the recommendation.
The BASA said for the sake of welfare of the country, hundred per cent posts of deputy secretaries, joint secretaries, additional secretaries and secretaries should be given to officers in the admin cadre.
Deputy commissioners protested the recommendation to reduce quota for promotion in administration. They submitted a protest letter to the Cabinet Secretary and Public Administration Secretary.
