Azmi to Receive Tk 10 Million Incentive
Retired Brig. Gen. Abdullahil Amaan Azmi. File photo.
The government has decided to grant normal retirement benefits and retrospective promotions to military officers who it says were subjected to discrimination during the 17-year rule of the ousted Awami League government.
In a notification issued Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense announced financial and administrative benefits for 150 retired, dismissed, discharged, and terminated officers from the Army, Navy, and Air Force who were affected between 2009 and Aug. 4, 2024.
Among those included is retired Brig. Gen. Abdullahil Aman Azmi, son of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam.
According to the government notification, Azmi will receive outstanding salaries and allowances along with a special financial incentive of Tk 10 million.
The notification states that 150 officers,115 from the Bangladesh Army, 21 from the Bangladesh Navy, and 14 from the Bangladesh Air Force, will receive normal retirement or retrospective promotions, along with applicable back pay, financial benefits, and other entitlements, including special financial incentives where applicable.
According to the order, Brig. Gen. Azmi was placed on compulsory early retirement on June 24, 2009.
The government has now granted him a retrospective promotion to the rank of major general effective Dec. 26, 2011, followed by a pre-retirement promotion to lieutenant general effective Dec. 26, 2014, before recognizing his retirement upon reaching the mandatory retirement age.
The notification says Azmi will receive outstanding salaries and allowances for his service as a brigadier general, as well as back pay for the period covered by his retrospective promotion to major general, in addition to all applicable financial and administrative benefits under existing regulations.
Besides the back pay and retirement benefits, he will receive a Tk 10 million special financial incentive. The notification also states that, subject to age and eligibility requirements, he may be appointed to a position in any government or autonomous institution.
