Officials of 25 cadres announce work abstention tomorrow protesting suspension of 12 | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
July 11, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025
Officials of 25 cadres announce work abstention tomorrow protesting suspension of 12

Bangladesh

TBS Report
01 March, 2025, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 01 March, 2025, 05:54 pm

Related News

  • NBR first secretary Tanzina suspended
  • Economist Abul Barkat arrested in graft case
  • No need to worry as US tariff talks ongoing: Fouzul tells biz leaders
  • Custom houses to continue operations this weekend to ease backlog
  • CA Yunus sends 300kg of mangoes as gift to Tripura CM

Officials of 25 cadres announce work abstention tomorrow protesting suspension of 12

During the strike, officials will wear black badges and stand in front of their respective offices with banners from 10:30am to 11:30am

TBS Report
01 March, 2025, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 01 March, 2025, 05:54 pm
File photo of Bangladesh Secretariat. Photo: Collected
File photo of Bangladesh Secretariat. Photo: Collected

 

Officials from 25 cadres of the Bangladesh Civil Service will observe a full-day work abstention tomorrow (2 March) in protest against the suspension of 12 government officers, the Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council has announced.

"We are issuing a one-week ultimatum for the reinstatement of 12 officials who were suspended for expressing their personal opinions on social media," the council's Coordinator Muhammad Mofizur Rahman said at a view exchange meeting with journalists at the Agricultural Information Service conference hall in Dhaka's Khamarbari today (1 March).

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

During the strike, officials will wear black badges and stand in front of their respective offices with banners from 10:30am to 11:30am, he said. "However, emergency services, including hospital emergency departments, will remain operational."

Mofizur warned that if the issue is not resolved within the next week, they will be compelled to announce stricter programmes. "We hope the concerned authorities will take necessary steps to address the matter."

During the meeting, the council also presented 15-point proposals to address disparities among Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadres.

In his keynote speech, Mofizur highlighted that the Public Administration Reform Commission had previously received proposals from the 25 cadres for establishing profession-based ministries and abolishing the quota system for appointments to the post of deputy secretary. 

He emphasised that while civil service professionalism has been widely advocated, the reform commission's report appears to favour further concentration of power in the hands of a particular influential group.

"If fully implemented, this report will undermine state reform efforts and strengthen administrative fascism," he said.

The keynote paper also pointed out concerns about education and health sectors.

Mofizur argued that rather than removing these sectors from cadre-based services outright, the recruitment process is being subtly altered to gradually detach them from mainstream administration.

Additionally, the council's coordinator criticised the exclusion of family planning cadre from reform proposals and the unjustified recommendation to remove the statistics cadre from the service, stating that such measures would discourage talented individuals from joining these sectors, ultimately leading to a talent drain.

Key proposals presented by the council include the implementation of profession-based ministries where each cadre oversees its relevant ministry, abolishing the quota system for deputy secretary appointments to ensure merit-based recruitment, and ensuring equal treatment for all BCS cadres.

The council also advocate for keeping education and health cadres under a unified commission, retaining family planning and statistics cadres within the public service system, and cancelling the provision allowing only administration cadre officials to return to their previous services after joining the Superior Executive Service.

Additionally, the council calls for abolishing the proposal to grant deputy commissioners the authority of district magistrates, renaming the Administrative Service as Land Service or Land Management Service, and changing the Ministry of Public Administration's name to the Ministry of Human Resource Management or the Ministry of Government Employee Management.

Top News

Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) / work abstention / Bangladesh / Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Bangladesh's delegation, led by Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin, began high-level negotiations with USTR Ambassador Jamieson Greer at 9pm Bangladesh time on Thursday (10 July). Photo: Collected from the Facebook handle of Golam Mortoza, Press Minister at the Bangladesh Embassy in the US
    No need to worry as US tariff talks ongoing: Fouzul tells biz leaders
  • Economist Abul Barkat; Photo: Courtesy
    Economist Abul Barkat arrested in graft case
  • Representational image. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS
    Explainer: Why SSC pass rate hit a 17-year low

MOST VIEWED

  • Graphics: TBS
    BB raises startup fund limit, drops upper age barrier
  • Workers pack undergarments at the packing section of a garment factory in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 19, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Fatima Tuj Johora
    After US tariffs, jobs hang by a thread in Bangladesh's garments sector
  • Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin/TBS
    SSC, equivalent results: Pass rate drops to 68.45%, GPA-5 also declines
  • File photo of containers at Chattogram port/TBS
    US buyers push Bangladeshi exporters to share extra tariff costs
  • Govt vehicle purchase, foreign trip, new building construction banned: Finance ministry
    Govt vehicle purchase, foreign trip, new building construction banned: Finance ministry
  • Students sit for SSC exam at Motijheel Girls' High School on 10 April 2025. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
    SSC exam results out: Here's how you can check online and via SMS

Related News

  • NBR first secretary Tanzina suspended
  • Economist Abul Barkat arrested in graft case
  • No need to worry as US tariff talks ongoing: Fouzul tells biz leaders
  • Custom houses to continue operations this weekend to ease backlog
  • CA Yunus sends 300kg of mangoes as gift to Tripura CM

Features

Photo: Collected/BBC

What Hitler’s tariff policy misfire can teach the modern world

3h | The Big Picture
Illustration: TBS

Behind closed doors: Why women in Bangladesh stay in abusive marriages

6h | Panorama
Purbachl’s 144-acre Sal forest is an essential part of the area’s biodiversity. Within it, 128 species of plants and 74 species of animals — many of them endangered — have been identified. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS

A forest saved: Inside the restoration of Purbachal's last Sal grove

7h | Panorama
Women are forced to fish in saline waters every day, risking their health to provide for their families. Photo: TBS

How Mongla’s women are bearing the brunt of rising salinity

1d | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

'Hypocrisy' will not continue, Iran tells IAEA

'Hypocrisy' will not continue, Iran tells IAEA

2h | TBS World
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

2h | TBS World
Will the title 'Honorable and Excellency' be abolished?

Will the title 'Honorable and Excellency' be abolished?

3h | TBS Today
July Declaration must be constitutionally recognized: Akhtar Hossain

July Declaration must be constitutionally recognized: Akhtar Hossain

2h | TBS Today
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net