57 officials left Bangladesh Bank

There is a great crisis in the country’s banking sector. Bank mergers, record defaults, dollar and liquidity crunch have panicked bank officials as well as customers. And experts are blaming Bangladesh Bank’s wrong policy for this. 57 officials left the job of Bangladesh Bank, the regulatory body of the financial sector itself, after getting opportunities elsewhere amid such uncertainty in the banking sector.

Recently, an order of Bangladesh Bank informed about the resignation of the officials.

Once upon a time, many people used to leave jobs like teaching in BCS, public universities and come to the central bank. But now it is the opposite.

According to experts, some feel that the trend of leaving central bank jobs is increasing due to frustration with the lack of autonomy of the Bangladesh Bank, reduced job opportunities.

It is known that a deputy director and an officer are among those who resigned. The remaining 55 are assistant directors. The resignation of 48 of them will take effect on Thursday (April 25). Besides, resignation of one person each on March 31, April 15 and April 16, two persons on April 18 and four persons on April 21 have been effective.

Most of these officers who left their jobs were working in various departments of the central bank’s head office. Besides, 3 people were working in Khulna and Barisal office, 2 people in Sylhet office, 1 person each in Motijheel, Chittagong and Rangpur offices.

On completion of three years till 2022, the officers would be eligible for promotion in the next step subject to the vacancy. Even if the post is vacant now, if it is not 5 years, you don’t get promoted. Earlier 9 months foundation training was done after joining. Now brought down from one to three months.

Again an additional increment was given if 80 percent marks were obtained in this training. That too is now closed. And in government job grade 5 car maintenance allowance of Tk 45 thousand per month is not given in Bangladesh Bank.

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