Sajjadul Hassan

Sajjadul Hassan is a Bangladeshi retired bureaucrat and former chairperson of Bangladesh Biman airlines.[1][2] He is the former Senior Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office.[3]

Early life

Hassan was born in Mohanganj Upazila, Netrokona District.[4] His father, Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, was a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.[4] His brother, Justice Obaidul Hassan, is a Justice in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He completed his SSC and HSC from Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and Dhaka College respectively.[4] He worked to introduce double shift in Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and renovate Shiyaljani canal in Mohanganj Municipality.[4]

Career

Hassan had served as the District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar District and Sylhet District.[5] Hassan was made the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from the Division Commissioner of Sylhet Division on 25 February 2015.[6]

On 26 January 2018, Hassan was promoted from Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to the acting secretary of the Prime Minister's Office.[7] Tofazzel Hossain Miah, previously the Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, replaced him as the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.[7][8] He was a special guest at the launching of the call centre service number 333 on 12 April 2018 by Sajeeb Wazed.[9] On 25 December 2019, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Secretary.[10]

Hassan was appointed the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the state owned Bangladesh Biman on 27 January 2020 by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.[11][12] He replaced Air Marshal Mohammad Enamul Bari.[11] Senior Secretary at the Ministry of Aviation, Mohibul Haque, supported steps to keep Biman Bangladesh under government control in 2020 and prevent it's privatisation under the chairpersonship of Hassan.[13] He oversaw a Dash 8-400, named Dhrubatara, aircraft joining the fleet of Bangladesh Biman in 2020 purchased through a government to government agreement between Bangladesh and Canada.[14] He is the President of Bangladesh Agricultural Economists Association.[15] In September 2022, the government broke the trustee board of Manarat International University and created a new board which included him.[16]

References
  1. "Sajjadul Hassan made new Biman chairman". Dhaka Tribune. 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  2. Correspondent, Senior; bdnews24.com. "Sajjadul Hasan named new Biman chairman". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  3. "Force Myanmar to take back Rohingyas". The Daily Star. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Govt appoints Sajjadul Hassan as secretary of PMO". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "পূর্ণ সচিব হলেন সাজ্জাদুল হাসান" (in Bengali). 2018-07-13. Archived from the original on 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  6. Report, Star Online (2015-02-25). "Sajjadul made PM's PS-1". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  7. "Sajjadul Hasan made acting secy of PMO". The Daily Star. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Tofazzel made PM's personal secretary". The Daily Star. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. "Receiving information on public services is now just a phone call away". The Daily Star. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  10. Bhattacharjee, Partha Pratim (2019-12-25). "Coveted promotions only to be short-lived". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  11. "Ex-PMO secy Sajjadul new Biman chairman | banglatribune.com". Bangla Tribune. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  12. "Sajjadul Hassan made new Biman chairman". theindependentbd.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. Hasan, Rashidul; Byron, Rejaul Karim (2020-09-15). "Biman may stay caged". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  14. Report, Star Online (2020-11-24). "'Dhrubatara', Biman's new Dash 8-400, lands in Dhaka". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  15. "BAEA felicitates new state minister for planning Dr Shamsul Alam". BSS. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. Rahaman, Arafat (2022-09-09). "Manarat University: Govt reconstitutes trustee board over 'militancy links'". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
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