Md. Sakhawat Hossain, previously Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, has been promoted to the position of Secretary of the same ministry. The appointment was confirmed through a notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Tuesday night. The current Secretary of the Ministry, Abu Taher Md. Masud Rana, has been transferred to the Ministry of Food.

In the same set of administrative changes, Md. Firoz Sarkar, Secretary of the Ministry of Food, has been reassigned as Secretary of the Statistics and Information Management Division. The official order stated that these transfers and promotions were made in the public interest and would take immediate effect.

These changes reflect a routine reshuffle within the government’s senior bureaucracy, aimed at ensuring administrative efficiency across key ministries.