News #1 Major General Sina Ibn Jamali is tipped to become president of Bangladesh Cricket Board, currently headed by agriculture secretary M Abdul Aziz.
News #2 The director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Brigadier General Sarkar MA Matin, has been made director of the Directorate of Drug Administration (DDA), the establishment ministry said Thursday.
News #3 The ministry also issued a circular on the appointment of Bangladesh Air Force squadron leader Md Moniruzzaman Hawlader as counsellor of the labour wing of Bangladesh Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
News #4 Major Rakibul Hasan of Bangladesh Army has been appointed to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission as deputy director.
News #5 Lt general Hasan Mashud Chowdhury is appointed chairman of Anti corruption commission.
News #6 New appointments were made in the top posts of Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ), BTRA (Bangladesh telecommunication Authority), BRTA (Bangladesh road transportation authority). And all the new appointees are generals.
News #7 For the first time in the history, even an election commissioner was selected from the ranks of the retired military community.
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Are military bureaucrats better, more efficient, more honest than civil bureaucrats? I’ll put a list of retired civil and military bureaucrats and let you judge by their long lasting contribution to the country as well as their reported corruption. This list is just a snapshot or random sampling. Please fill me in with more names if you think that would change any general stereotyping or skew the results.
| Civil bureaucrats
Ex CSP Mjibul HaqJustice Shahabuddin AhmedJustice abu Sayeed ChowdhuryJustice Habibur Rahman EX CSP MK AnwarEx CSP HT ImamEx CSP Abu SayedDr M Ibrahim ( Founder of BIRDEM)Dr Nurul Islam ( National Professor)EX CSP Dr. Akbar Ali KhanEx CS Dr Sadat Hossain |
Military bureaucratsGeneral MAG Osmani Lt General HM ErshadM Gen Mahmud Hassan ( Ershad Minister, fuler moto pobitro choritro)Maj Gen Z A Khan Air Vice Marshall Altaf Hossain ChyLt Gen NasimLt Gen Nuruddin KhanMaj Gen Majidul HaqCol MostafizMaj Gen Mannaf ( Ershad’s minister)Maj Gen Tareq ( Ex DGFI, later sheikh Hasina’s body guard) |
In the Middle of Nowhere 
July 25, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Excellent point. This really seems to be the time to be an ex-military officer. The only group that’s probably as in-demand currently are past officials of the World Bank, IMF, and the UN. Let me add three further names to both the list:
Civilian: Dr. Moniruzzaman Mian, Dr. Asaduzzaman (chairman, UGC), Dr. Shah Mohammed Farid
Military: Col. Fauruq Khan, Maj. Gen. M. A. Matin, Maj. Gen. Motiur Rahman
July 26, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Thank you Rumi bhai! Nowhere else is this prejudice against civil(ian) service more pronounced than in the arena of national security.
The mindset seems to be that only people from the armed forces REALLY know what national security really is. This leads to parochial analysis of security based on military capabilities only. In this India is obviously the big worry and with good reason.
What gets lost in the analysus are human and economic security. Consider the recent jute mills closure, at a time when India’s taking advantage of growing demand for jute products. As a result, their industries will grow while we close ours off and simply become raw jute exporters to their industries. Their people will prosper while ours will be captive to the whims of the world market once again. Yet, no one is talking about this from an economic/human security angle at all!
On the other hand, “intelligence agencies” and the police were supposedly there to stop people from handing out food to these mill workers. I’m sorry, come again? How is this a threat to national security, which intelligence agencies are supposed to be looking out for? How is this a threat to law and order, which the police are supposed to look out for? Don’t expect your favourite editor to write about this anytime soon!:)
As I said, our “threat perception” is severely damaged as a result of this disrespect of civil service and civilian views. Sorry for this mini-rant on your blog, but you’ve picked up on the source of the problem.
July 29, 2007 at 2:51 am
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