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OMS & upazila education officers

16 October 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By An Upazila Education Officer Narail Sadar Narail
16 October 2005, 18:00 PM
An Upazila Education Officer (UEO) is the most important official to implement compulsory primary education programme in the field level. Unbearably overburdened and busy with the duties of administration, management, control and supervision of about 200 primary school and at least 500 teaching staffs concerned, a UEO is imposed upon or self bound to engage in various extra departmental activities. Duties of voters' Registration Officer, Returning Officer in UP elections, and Presiding Officer in Parliamentary or Municipality elections and relief Officer during national calamities are mandatory, because these are given the topmost priorities over all other state activities.

But what about the duty of a supervisor of "Open Market Sale" (OMS) of rice programme? Upazila Nirbahi Officers in some upazilas have issued orders giving such duties to the UEOs regarding the OMS Programme that started on October 1. This programme will be running everyday from 9:00am to 4:00pm including holidays for a PSC-recruit first class gazetted officer (Public Servant indeed!), but away from office all the working hours round how can they cope with the situation? How is it possible to get along with their regular departmental activities? No doubt, such a situation is all against the playing of a successful role by the UEOs in implementing the primary education programme.

Will the honourable secretary, Ministry of Primary & Mass Education kindly look in to the matter and convey necessary directives to the Deputy Commissioners and UNOs to at least, spare the Upazila Education Officers from extra departmental activities, except the most important ones like election and disaster management.

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