BPO will recruit 3000 office staff
Monday, 6 April 2009
Mahmuda Shaolin
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) will start recruiting around 3000 office staff this year as the government has recently withdrawn the restrictions on new employments after four years.
Officials said, the Establishment Ministry gave permission to the BPO last month allowing it to recruit officials and general employees like postmasters and postmen to improve its services including remittance delivery.
"We're going to recruit around 3000 office staff this year as the BPO has long been negotiating with the establishment ministry for allowing it to make fresh recruitment against vacant posts," BPO director general Mobasher ur Rahman told the FE Sunday.
BPO will soon advertise for applications to fill the vacant posts of junior accountant, inspectors, upzila postmasters and postal operators, he said.
"The initiative of the establishment ministry would help the BPO to compete with local courier companies once the manpower increases," the BPO DG added.
There are around 9886 government post offices and agent village post offices spread across the country, where more than 16,000 postmasters, postmen and runners are now employed.
Mobashsher said with the present limited human resources and facilities, a large sector like the post office does not have the capacity to cover the entire country.
Out of around 10,000 offices, only about 1000 are situated in the cities and district towns and are in full commercial operation while the rest remains under-utilised throughout the year.
The BPO chief said the organisation can embark on more income generating ventures once the recruitment process is complete.
It has been desperately looking for alternative sources of revenues to cut back on its losses and make its services quicker and consumer friendly.
Last year, BPO, hamstrung by manpower shortage, has refused a Tk 21.6 million annual offer for distribution of bills of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) as it was found almost impossible to run the vast services with the present facilities and equipment.
"Time has changed. We no longer dominate the money transfer business or letter posting services in the country," said Mr Rahman adding that they wanted to change the way post offices operate in the country.
"We want to make our postmen hard working and efficient ‘ so we need to recruit more manpower to capture the whole portion of the market by competing with the private courier services," he added.
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) will start recruiting around 3000 office staff this year as the government has recently withdrawn the restrictions on new employments after four years.
Officials said, the Establishment Ministry gave permission to the BPO last month allowing it to recruit officials and general employees like postmasters and postmen to improve its services including remittance delivery.
"We're going to recruit around 3000 office staff this year as the BPO has long been negotiating with the establishment ministry for allowing it to make fresh recruitment against vacant posts," BPO director general Mobasher ur Rahman told the FE Sunday.
BPO will soon advertise for applications to fill the vacant posts of junior accountant, inspectors, upzila postmasters and postal operators, he said.
"The initiative of the establishment ministry would help the BPO to compete with local courier companies once the manpower increases," the BPO DG added.
There are around 9886 government post offices and agent village post offices spread across the country, where more than 16,000 postmasters, postmen and runners are now employed.
Mobashsher said with the present limited human resources and facilities, a large sector like the post office does not have the capacity to cover the entire country.
Out of around 10,000 offices, only about 1000 are situated in the cities and district towns and are in full commercial operation while the rest remains under-utilised throughout the year.
The BPO chief said the organisation can embark on more income generating ventures once the recruitment process is complete.
It has been desperately looking for alternative sources of revenues to cut back on its losses and make its services quicker and consumer friendly.
Last year, BPO, hamstrung by manpower shortage, has refused a Tk 21.6 million annual offer for distribution of bills of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) as it was found almost impossible to run the vast services with the present facilities and equipment.
"Time has changed. We no longer dominate the money transfer business or letter posting services in the country," said Mr Rahman adding that they wanted to change the way post offices operate in the country.
"We want to make our postmen hard working and efficient ‘ so we need to recruit more manpower to capture the whole portion of the market by competing with the private courier services," he added.