Officials from 25 cadres of the Bangladesh Civil Service yesterday rejected the recommendations made by the public administration reform commission, terming them "anti-public".

Members of the Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council, comprising 25 cadres except for the BCS Administration cadre, also said no quotas will be accepted for promotion to the position of deputy secretary.

At a press conference in the Dhaka Reporter's Unity, Shawkat Hossain, coordinator of the council, said, "Our fears have come true. We reject the Public Administration Reform Commission's vague report and anti-public proposals.

"Although the commission replaced the word 'Cadre' with 'Service' for all cadres in its report, it retained the term 'Administrative Service' for the administration cadre, thereby attempting to make it more powerful. However, administrative positions exist across all cadres."

About the commission's recommendation regarding promotion to deputy secretary post, he alleged the commission has presented an absurd and illogical proposal for allocating a 50 percent quota for the admin cadre and the remainder for the other 25 cadres.

"We won't accept any quota in deputy secretary promotions. This proposal must be revised to ensure a 100 percent open competition for all cadres."

The council also issued an ultimatum, demanding that the dismissal orders for officials from different cadres over social media comments be withdrawn.

They said if these "unjust dismissal orders" were not withdrawn within a week, all cadre officials under the council will be compelled to go on work abstention and take further action.

It also said that despite similar allegations surfacing against the administration cadre, the public administration ministry has not yet taken any action.