The Election Commission will employ around 2,000 people in different categories including Thana Assistant Election Officer ahead of the parliamentary polls, BSS reported.
“The commission will employ around 2,000 people including 517 Thana Assistant Election Officers ahead of the national polls,” Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder told reporters at his office at the Nirbachan Bhaban in city’s Agargaon area.
He said the EC will be more capable after recruiting the manpower. But this manpower is not adequate, he added.
Besides, a meeting of the EC committee for appointment, promotion, administrative reforms and rearrangement and skill development was held yesterday with Mahbub Talukder in the chair.
The meeting proposed promotion of EC 75 officials.