Md Humayun Kabir Khandaker is a Bangladeshi civil servant and the senior secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He is the former Election Commission Secretary.

Early life

Khandaker did his undergrad and masters in philosophy at the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

Career

Khandaker joined the

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in 1991 in the admin cadre. In 2014, he received the Information and Communication Technology Award. In November 2015, Khandaker was the deputy commissioner of

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. He served as the personal secretary of

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, political advisor to the Prime Minister

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. He was the additional secretary at the

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. In 2016, he was awarded the Public Administration Award. Khandaker was appointed the secretary of the

Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operates the legal functions of election laws i ...

in January 2021. He was the former Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner. He was replaced by Md Humayun Kabir as divisional commissioner. In January 2022, Justice

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and Justice

Khandaker Diliruzzaman Khandaker Diliruzzaman is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. Early life Diliruzzaman was born on 23 March 1973. He has a bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Rajshahi. Career Diliruzzaman becam ...

issued a ruling asking why contempt of court should not be taken against him and three others for not publishing the results of a ward election in Chittagong. The government asked him and the election commission to investigate Bangladesh Nationalist Party using lobbying firms in the United States. Khandaker was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Industries in October 2022. He was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting following the forced retirement of the former secretary,

Md Mokbul Hossain Md Mokbul Hossain is a retired Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Secretary. He was sent into forced retirement before his tenure ended citing public interest. Early life Hossain was born in Ballavepur, Kumarkhali Upazila, Kushtia District. ...

in November 2022. Zakia Sultana appointed to the secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was cancelled at the same time. He oversaw the launch of the digitalization of National Institute of Mass Communication services as part of the mygov platform project.

References

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