Interim government: Distribution of ministries among advisers

Dr. Muhammad Yunus sworn in as the chief advisor to the interim government yesterday (August 8) along with his 16 advisers. In terms of distributing ministries and divisions he kept 27 offices including 25 ministries and two divisions. These are:

Ministries and divisions under Dr Yunus

1. Cabinet Division
2. Ministry of Defence
3. Armed Forces Division
4. Ministry of Education
5. Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges
6. Ministry of Food
7. Ministry of Housing and Public Works
8. Ministry of Land 
9. Ministry of Textiles and Jute
10. Ministry of Agriculture
11. Ministry of Science and Technology
12. Ministry of Railways
13. Ministry of Public Administration
14. Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources
15. Ministry of Shipping
16. Ministry of Water Resources
17. Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
18. Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief
19. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
20. Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment
21. Ministry of Commerce
22. Ministry of Labour and Employment
23. Ministry of Cultural Affairs
24. Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism
25. Ministry of Liberation War Affairs
26. Ministry of Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs
27. Ministry of Primary and Mass Education

The other advisors are:

1. Salehuddin Ahmed: Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank gets Finance Ministry and Planning Ministry.
2. Brigadier General (Retired) M. Sakhawat Hossain: Former election commissioner gets Home Ministry.
3. Touhid Hossain: Former Foreign Secretary gets Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
4. Prof Asif Nazrul: Dhaka University Law Professor gets Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
5. Nurjahan Begum: Trustee of Grameen Telecom gets Health Ministry.
6. AF Hassan Ariff: Former Attorney General and Adviser of Fakhruddin Ahmed-led Caretaker Government now gets Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives.
7. Syeda Rizwana Hasan: Chief Executive of BELA gets Environment Ministry.
8. Farida Akhtar: Women‍‍`s rights activist gets Fisheries and Livestock Ministry.
9. Adilur Rahman Khan: Founder of Odhikar gets Ministry Industries. 
10. AFM Khalid Hossain: Nayeb-e-Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam and Adviser of Islami Andolan Bangladesh gets Ministry of Religious Affairs.
11. Sharmeen Murshid: Chief Executive Officer at "Brotee," an organisation that monitors elections gets Social Welfare Ministry.
12. Md Nahid Islam Fahim: DU Student and Key Organizer of the Anti-Discrimination Students‍‍` Movement gets Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
13. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan: DU Student and Key Organizer of the Anti-Discrimination Students‍‍` Movement gets Ministry of Youth and Sports.
14. Bir Pratik Faruk-e-Azam: Freedom fighter and  naval commando
15. Supradip Chakma: Chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB)
16. Prof. Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar: Director of the National Institute of Mental Health & Hospital‍‍`s Department of Psychiatry

A gazette notification was published in this regard today from cabinet division signed by Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain.

There had been virtually no government in the country for three days after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5 in the face of the student movement. 

The interim government was formed on Thursday night under the leadership Nobel peace laureate of Dr Muhammad Yunus with 14 of them out of 17-member interim government were sworn in. 

Bidhan Ranjan Roy, Farooqi Azam and Suprodip Chakma could not take the oath as they were outside of the capital Dhaka.