All of a sudden, 57 officials left the job of Bangladesh Bank. 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 today. Before this, the 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.
This information was informed in an office order of the central bank last Tuesday (April 23). Most of these resigned officers were working in the central bank’s head office. Besides, three people each were working in Khulna and Barisal offices, two people in Sylhet office, one each in Motijheel, Chittagong and Rangpur offices.
It is known that they left the job of Central Bank to join other jobs including Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS). But even a few years ago, many people used to leave jobs like teaching in BCS, public universities and come to the central bank. Suddenly that picture changed.
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After joining Bangladesh Bank as Assistant Director till 2018, four additional increments were given on the basis of academic results. It was discontinued from AD batch of 2019. 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 the service age is less than five years, no promotion is given.
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 fifth grade car maintenance allowance of Tk 45 thousand per month is given but it is not given in Bangladesh Bank.
