Iqbal Mahmood is new BTRC chairman

The government has appointed Iqbal Mahmood the new chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) for the next three years. He is replacing Sunil Kanti Bose whose contract will end on Oct 22.

Secretary Iqbal Mahmood, currently on leave preparatory to retirement, can join office on Oct 23 cancelling his leave, a government order on Tuesday said. His three-year tenure will be counted from the day he takes charge.

The 1981 batch BCS officer became a secretary in June 2008 when serving as acting secretary to the posts and telecommunications ministry. He was made the public administration ministry’s secretary the following year.

In 2012, the government created the post of ‘senior secretary’ and promoted eight bureaucrats, including Mahmood who was the secretary to the Economic Relations Division at that time.

He was made the ADB’s alternative executive director in November that year and went on LPR last December after his tenure ended.

In a separate order on Tuesday, the government made Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zahurul Haq a BTRC commissioner on a three-year contract.