EC to hire 2,000 before polls

Ahead of the 11th national election, the Election Commission will recruit around 2,000 employees in different categories while 75 officials have been recommended for promotion.

“The commission will employ around 2,000 people including 517 thana assistant election officers ahead of the national polls,” election commissioner Mahbub Talukder told newsmen at his office at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the city’s Agargaon.

He said the EC will be more capable after recruiting the manpower, he added.

Besides, a meeting of the EC committee for appointment, promotion, administrative reforms and rearrangement and skill development was held on Wednesday with Mahbub Talukder in the chair.

The meeting proposed promotion of 75 EC officials.