The government appoints senior land secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam as cabinet secretary. Photo taken from Ministry of Land website.

The government today appointed senior land secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam as cabinet secretary.

He will replace M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan who has been given contractual appointment as the Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank's Washington Headquarters for three years.

Shafiul Alam joined Bangladesh Civil Service in 1982.

Bhuiyan will join the WB job on November 2. He will go on retirement from the government service on December 14 this year.

The government has granted him lien from November 1 to December 14.

His post retirement leave (PRL) has been cancelled and given the contractual job with the status of a cabinet secretary.