The Financial Express, 31 July 2012
Bangladesh bank (BB) has served show cause notices to its record number of 114 high officials who were staging demonstration inside the central bank for seeking promotion.
The central bank for the first time of its history on Monday issued the notice to such a significant number of officials that include 18 deputy managers and 96 assistant managers of its cash department at its Motijheel headquarters.
All officers of BB’s cash department went to the governor floor and started observing work abstention at about 9.30 AM on Sunday to press home their one point demand.
During the protest programme that had lasted for one and a half hours also seriously disrupted official works, prompting the authorities of central bank to issue the show cause notice ordering the protesters to submit their reply within August 7.
The show cause notice said the officials took part in the gathering ignoring their duties, which hampered the reputation and service of the bank through disturbing its internal discipline.
“It is considered as a punishable offense and also a clear violation of sections 19(1), 42(a) and 44(1) of Bangladesh Bank Staff Regulations, 2003,” the notice mentioned.
The protesters were also instructed to reply the reasons to the department concerned on why punishable measures should not be taken against them for breaking the discipline.
Action will be taken against the officials who will not be able to reply the show cause notice accurately, said a BB high official.
The central bank is now going on secret investigation in this regard to take necessary action against the accused officials, he added.
“We have placed proposals for allowing our promotion; we will go for next course of action unless the authorities do not accept our demand within a short time,” the officials who were served the notice said.
Bangladesh Economy 
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