Minimum Wage Board Chairman and District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Ashfakur Rahman has been removed from the post. Syed Azad Subhani, a District and Sessions Judge currently serving as chairman of the Child Abuse Prevention Tribunal in Pirojpur, has been appointed as the new chairman.
A notification to this effect was issued on Wednesday by the Law and Justice Division under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
According to the notification, Ashfakur has been transferred to the post of Director (Training) at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in Dhaka. He had been appointed chairman of the wage board formed amid protests by garment workers.
The order was issued in the public interest by order of the President and in consultation with the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
The notification directed the transferred officials to hand over their current responsibilities immediately and join their new workplaces.
