Musammat Nazmanara Khanum | |
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Member, Bangladesh Public Service Commission | |
Assumed office 17 May 2023 | |
Appointed by | President of Bangladesh |
Personal details | |
Born | Jessore District,Bangladesh | 9 June 1962
Profession | Government official |
Musammat Nazmanara Khanum is a Bangladeshi retired government official and former secretary of the Ministry of Food. [1] She is currently a member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission.
Khanum was born in June 1962 in Jessore District,East Pakistan,Pakistan. [2] She has a bachelors in agriculture and a masters in plant pathology. [2] She did her PhD in food nutrition from Japan. [3]
Khanum joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1989. [2] She served as an assistant commissioner and Upazila Nirbahi Officer. [3]
Khanum was the Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate of Naogaon District in 2010. [4] She served as the Divisional Commissioner of Sylhet Division. She was the first woman Divisional Commissioner of Bangladesh. [5] She was made the Director General of Directorate General of Food on 27 May 2019. [5]
On 19 December 2019,Khanum was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Food. [2] In April 2020,she stopped the Open Market Sale of subsidized essentials to stop the spread of COVID-19. [6] She introduced letter based grading food quality and hyenine in restaurants and cafes in Bangladesh. [7] She saw the import of 100 thousand ton of rice from Myanmar. [8]
In April 2022,Khanum visited the Centre for Food Policy of the City,University of London. [9] She is a member of the advisory board of the Japanese Universities Alumni Association in Bangladesh. [10] She was the president of the Bangladesh Civil Service Women Network. [11] She retired in May 2023. [12]
In May 2023,Khanum was appointed a member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission along with Helal Uddin Ahmed,Shafiqul Islam,and Md Muksodur Rahman Patwary. [13]
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