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The distribution of the various government duties was announced in a notice from the Cabinet Division on Friday
Published : 09 Aug 2024, 01:51 PM
Former central bank governor Salehuddin Ahmed will lead the new government’s efforts to rebuild the economy while Asif Nazrul will deal with the judiciary and legal issues as Muhammad Yunus assigned portfolios to his team members.
The duties for the different government agencies was distributed among the advisors to the interim government in a notice from the Cabinet Division on Friday.
Former deputy attorney general Adilur Rahman Khan got industries while his former boss Hasan Ariff was tasked with the politically-important local government and rural development ministry.
The two youngsters in the cabinet will have important work to do — Md Nahid islam, a Dhaka University sociology alum, will handle telecommunications, postal services and ICT and his mate 25-year-old Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain will lead the youth and sports ministry.
Yunus kept as many as 27 ministries or divisions to himself, which could mean he could add more people to his cabinet.
Caretaker or interim administrations with small teams in the past assigned multiple ministries to one cabinet member.
From defence to disaster management, education to information, commerce to culture, agriculture, public administration to women’s affairs, energy, science, water resources, railways, roads and bridges, water transport, food, works, civil aviation, CHT, Liberation War affairs are on the list of jobs the Nobel peace laureate will do, at least for now.
Climate and environment campaigner Syeda Rizwana Hasan, another legal professional, got the job she probably knows best at the Ministry and Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Former election commissioner and retired army officer Shakhawat Hossain will have the crucial task of restoring order and rebuild confidence in policing from the police themselves.
Former foreign service officer Touhid Hossain will be the top diplomat for the government, Sharmeen Murshid, a civil rights campaigner, has been given social welfare, while Farida Akhter of UBINIG will be in charge of the fisheries and livestock ministry.
Nurjahan Begum, a former acting managing director at Grameen Bank, is the new boss at the health and family welfare ministry.
AFM Khalid Hossain of Hifazat-e Islam has been given religious affairs.
The new interim cabinet led by Yunus took their oaths of office on Thursday at a simple ceremony. As of Thursday, only 13 of his 16 advisors had taken their oaths of office as three others were absent from the ceremony.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin read those present their oaths.
WHO GETS WHAT DUTIES?
Muhammad Yunus: Cabinet Division, Armed Forces Division, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, Ministry of Food, Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Railway, Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Ministry of Relief and Disaster Management, Ministry of Information and Broadcast, Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Foreign Employment, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, Ministry of Hill Tracts Affair, Ministry of Primary and Mass Mass Education, Ministry of Land and Ministry of Textiles and Jute.
Saleh Uddin Ahmed: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning
Asif Nazrul: Ministry of Law, Judiciary, and Parliamentary Affairs
Adilur Rahman Khan: Ministry of Industries
AF Hasan Ariff: Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives
Touhid Hossain: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Syeda Rizwana Hasan: Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change,
Sharmeen S Murshid: Ministry of Social Welfare
M Sakhawat Hossain: Ministry of Home Affairs
AFM Khalid Hossain: Ministry of Religious Affairs
Farida Akhter: Ministry of Fisheries and Water Resources
Nurjahan Begum: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Md Nahid Islam: Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and ICT
Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan: Ministry of Youth and Sports
