Abdur Rashid new cabinet secretary

Sheikh Abdur Rashid

The government on Tuesday appointed Sheikh Abdur Rashid as the cabinet secretary for the next two years on a contractual basis.

A gazette notification, signed by Nilufa Yeasmin, senior assistant secretary of Contract and Foreign Employment Section of the Ministry of Public Administration, was issued in this regard.

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His two-year service will be counted from October 14 or the day when he will join, the notification says.

Rashid was appointed following section-49 of the Public Service Act-2018, the release added.