Bangla CA appoints three special assistants, reallocates portfolio

Dhaka, Jan 10 (UNI) Bangladesh caretaker government Chief Advisor Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed today appointed three special Assistants to the Chief Adviso with the rank of state minister.

They are Brig Gen (retd) MA Malek, former chairman of Power Development Board, Professor M Tamim of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Barrister Debashis Roy.

The Chief Advisor also reallocated portfolios of Advisory Council members.

Reallocated portfolios: Dr Mirza Azizul Islam, Finance and Planning Ministry, Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin Shipping, Land and Liberation War Ministries, Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury - Foreign Affairs, Overseas Expatriate Welfare and Employment Ministries, M Anwarul Iqbal LGRD and Cooperatives , Textile and Jute Ministries.

The other realocated portfolios are - AMM Shawkat Ali - Health and Family Planning, Food and Disaster Management Ministries, Maj Gen (retd) Golam Kader- Communications, Housing and Public Works Ministries, Rasheda K Chowdhury - Primary and Mass Education, Women and Children Affairs Ministries, Hossain Zillur Rahman. Education and Commerce Ministries, Dr CS Karim, Agriculture, Water resources Ministries and AF Hasan Arif - Law and parliamentary Affairs and Religious Ministries.

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