Dr Shamsul Alam, former senior secretary of the General Economic Division of Planning Commission, will take oath on Sunday as the state minister for planning ministry in the incumbent cabinet of the government.
He will take oath under the technocrat quota at Bangabhaban at 7:00pm Sunday, Shamsul Alam told The Business Post on Friday.
“The cabinet secretary called me asking to take preparation to be sworn as a state minister for the Ministry of Planning,” he said.
Shamsul’s tenure as a member of the Planning Commission expired in June.
After serving 35 years as an academician and researcher, he joined the Planning Commission as a member in 2009. In his 12-year tenure there, he formulated the Delta Plan 2100, the Sixth Five Year Plan, the Seventh Five Year Plan, the Eighth Five Year Plan and many other economic policies. For these contributions, he was awarded the Ekushay Padak.
At present, the cabinet has 25 ministers and 19 state ministers. Three deputy ministers have also taken charge of different ministries.
Shamsul Alam was born in the Matlab upazila of Chandpur in 1951. He passed MSc in Agricultural Economics from Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1973.
He obtained an MA degree in Economics from Thammasat University, Bangkok, in 1983 before completing his PhD in Economics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1991.
