DHAKA, Feb 25, 2020 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid today asked members of
the Public Service Commission (PSC) to ensure more accountability and
transparency in their overall activities so that mass people can get
confidence in the PSC as a statutory body.
“Ensure more transparency and accountability in the overall activities . .
. Simultaneously, take necessary steps to hold the PSC recruitment tests
within the shortest possible duration,” the President told the PSC delegation
as it handed over its Annual Report-2019 to him.
The PSC delegation, led by its Chairman Dr Muhammed Sadique, apprised the
President of the overall activities of the commission, including different
development plans, as well as various aspects of the report, President’s
Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told BSS after the meet.
The PSC chairman informed the President that the commission has arranged
the trained rover scouts to help the specially-abled examinees as writers in
the BCS recruitment tests.
Referring to government’s directives to hold the recruitment tests for its
employees of Class-III and IV categories in different directorates and
departments of the all ministries, he said the commission in the meantime
sent a proposal, with necessary legal frameworks, infrastructure and
manpower, to the Public Administration Ministry.
“A total of 67,471 successful candidates, including 31,437 cadres and
36,034 non-cadres, were recommended for jobs in the competitive PSC
examinations in different categories from 2009 to 2019,” PSC Chairman Sadique
informed the President.
President Hamid also expressed satisfaction over the overall activities of
the commission.
Secretaries concerned to the President, among others, were present.