Terminate controversial contractual appointments, ensure supplies

A slew of action plans comes from the maiden meeting of the Advisory Council of the interim government with supply of all essential commodities and termination of all "controversial" contractual appointments topping the priorities, officials say.
The meeting, held on Sunday -- the first full day of function in office of the just-installed government -- also formed a search committee to appoint of a new governor of Bangladesh Bank and a new chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission as resignations of the incumbents have been accepted.
The members of the committee are Muslim Chowdhury, Ahsan H Mansur and Nazrul Islam.
Held at the Chief Adviser's office in the capital, the meeting also decided that the metro rail "shall start running from Saturday next".
The metro trains, however, would not stop at the damaged stations at Kazipara and Mirpur until repairs.
Also the meeting noted the attacks on religious minorities in some places with grave concern. The chief adviser would immediately sit with the representative bodies and other groups concerned to find ways of fixing such "heinous acts".
The council of advisers also decided to immediately terminate disputed and controversial contractual appointments while the rest will be terminated in phases.
Also made a decision is to prepare a list of all injured protesters at the earliest and that their treatment costs will "fully be borne by the government".
"The health ministry will accordingly instruct all hospitals to this effect. The government will also support the families of the deceased protesters," the meeting decided.
Also, the ministry of foreign affairs has been asked to immediately start consultation for release of the 57 Bangladeshis arrested and sentenced by the UAE authority for protesting in support of the Bangladeshi students and people.
If needed, the Chief Adviser himself would talk to the government concerned for their release.

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