KARACHI: The Sindh government has issued notifications for appointments of recently promoted provincial bureaucrats in grade-21on a regular basis, it emerged on Thursday.

A provincial selection board, presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, has recently given approval of the promotions of five provincial officers to grade-21 from grade-20.

According to a notification issued by acting chief secretary Baqaullah Unnar, Ex-PCS officer Makhdoom Shakeel-uz-Zaman serving as deputy managing director (finance) of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board is transferred and posted with immediate effect and until further orders as chairman (BS-21) of the chief minister’s inspection, enquiries and implementation department against an existing vacancy.

Another notification says that incumbent information secretary Abdul Rasheed Solangi has been promoted to grade-21, but he is allowed to continue till the time he holds the next post.

Similarly, after promotion to grade-21, culture, tourism, antiquities and archives secretary Abdul Rahim Soomro has been allowed to continue on the said post till the time he holds the next post.

Moreover, on promotion to BS-21 on a regular basis, Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah is allowed to continue as member (Gothabad), Sindh Board of Revenue till further posting.

Another grade-21 officer, Saeed Ahmed Awan, is also allowed to continue as secretary of the public health engineering and rural development department till the time he holds the next post.

Published in Dawn, April 8th, 2022