Md. Jahidul Islam
Director, NWPGCL
Joint Secretary, Power Division

Mr. Md. Jahidul Islam, Joint Secretary, Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources, joined NWPGCL as a Director on 19 January 2023. He is a Member of the Administrative A airs Committee, Legal A airs Committee and Project Steering Committee of the Company.

Mr. Md. Jahidul Islam earned his MSS in Social Welfare in the First Class in 1998 from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and M.Sc. in Project Management in Commendation from the University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, 2014.

He belongs to Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) Cadre of 21st batch and started his career as Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate in 2003. He also worked as Assistant Commissioner (Land); Upazilla Nirbahi O cer at Fulchhari and Birganj Upazila under Gaibandha and Dinajpur District respectively. He served as Estate officer in Narayanganj City Corporation and also served as Secretary as additional duty in the same city corporation; he also worked as Deputy Director and Director at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre; worked as Assistant Project Director in the Strengthening Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (Phase-III) Project at BPATC; worked as Additional Deputy Project Director and Deputy Project Director in the ‘Improving Public Services through Total Quality Management (IPS-TQM) Project of BPATC as additional duty. He worked as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Cultural A airs and Private Secretary to the Minister of State of the Ministry of Cultural A airs. Later on he worked as Deputy Secretary in the Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources. At present he is working as Joint Secretary in the Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources from 2 November 2022.

In his bright career he was also involved to several research works. As such, Mr. Jahid Worked as Joint Research Project Director of the research work titled ‘A Study of Policy Makers Understanding of and Responses to Climate Change in Bangladesh’, funded by SBPATC (Phase-III) Project of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), 2015; he has done Research work on the title ‘The need for an effective holistic approach for successful flood disaster management with the execution of public projects in Bangladesh’ done as part of course work at University of Bedfordshire, UK, 2014; also worked as research team leader on the title ‘Analysis of Environment and Disaster Management Issues in Secondary Education: Bangladesh Perspective’ funded by National Academy for Educational Management, Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh, 2016; worked as Joint Research Director in the research work ‘Application of Learnings by the Participants of the Training Courses Conducted by RPATCs’ funded by BPATC, 2016; worked as Team Leader in the research work titled ‘A Study on the Effectiveness of National Integrity Strategy towards Promoting Good Governance at Ministry

and Department Levels: Bangladesh Perspective’ funded by National Integrity Strategy Support Project, Cabinet Division, 2017.

He has a number of published works which are as follows:

A. Books in Bangla

• Co-Author of ‘Supervision, Personnel and Financial Management’, Ima Prokashoni, Dhaka, 2003.

• Author of ‘An Outline of Human Rights and Social Justice’, Orient Publications, Dhaka, 2006 etc.

• Author of Women and Child Rights: Bangladesh Perspective, Orient Publications, Dhaka, 2021 etc.

• Lead Author of ‘Roles and Functions of Field Administration Related to Child Rights Issues in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Dhaka, 2018.

B. Edited Handbooks/News Letters in English/Bangla

• ‘Handbook on Child Protection in Bangladesh’, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Dhaka, 2018.

• ‘Handbook on Education of Children in Bangladesh’, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Dhaka, 2018.

• ‘Handbook on Child Health in Bangladesh’, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Dhaka, 2018.

• ‘Handbook on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Bangladesh’, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Dhaka, 2018.

• BPATC Newsletter on Child Rights,

December, 2018 (Bangla & English).

Article

• (Co-Author) ‘Policy makers understanding and their responses to climate change: Bangladesh perspective’ Published in Proshikhyan – a journal of training and development, Volume 23, No. 2, July December 2015 etc.

• (Co-Author) ‘Role of Stakeholders in Cyclone Disaster Management: Bangladesh Perspective’ Published in Bangladesh Open University journal of Open School, Volume 6, No. 1, 2017.

He is privileged to take part in many high-pro le training courses, seminars, symposiums, workshops, meetings at home and abroad. He visited Japan, UK, France, Belgium, Netherland, Germany, Thailand, Italy, Switzerland, Indonesia, USA, Saudi Arabia, India, Tunisia, Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria for training and official purpose.