Reshuffle in top tier of bureaucracy

The Public Administration Ministry in a gazette yesterday announced that some of the top bureaucrats have been transferred.

The gazette mentioned that Biman Managing Director and CEO M Mokabbir Hossain was among the officials transferred. But the ministry issued a similar gazette about an hour later without mentioning Mokabbir.

The official did not answer the phone when The Daily Star called to ask him whether he had been transferred to the Railways Ministry, as the gazette mentioned. 

According to the gazettes, Mokammel Hossain, additional secretary at the Public Administration Ministry, had been transferred as the secretary of Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry.

M Mohibul Haque, current senior secretary at the Civil Aviation Ministry, said he will retire once his contract ends on January 5, next year.

Ramendranath Biswas will be the member (secretary) at the Planning Commision. He was an additional secretary at the finance division.

Mostafa Kamal will be the new chairman (secretary) of the Land Reform Board and Mostafizur Rahman will be the land secretary.