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ABM Amin Ullah Nuri
Bangladeshi civil servant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ABM Amin Ullah Nuri is a Bangladeshi civil servant and former secretary of the Road Transport and Highways Division.[1] He is a former chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.[2]
Nuri is the former chief executive officer of the Dhaka South City Corporation.[3]
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Early life
Amin Ullah Nuri was born to Mohammad Abdun Noor and Maryam Begum on 1 January 1965 in Juldha village of Karnaphuli Upazila of Chittagong. He obtained a B.S. (Hons.) in 1987 and an M.S. in 1988 from the Department of Political Science, University of Dhaka.[4]
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In 2020, after Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh became mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation, he appointed Nuri chief executive officer of the corporation.[5]
Nuri was appointed chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha in April 2021, replacing acting chairman Sayeed Hasan Sikder, who held the post after the retirement of Mohammad Sayeed Noor Alam.[5]
Nuri promised to remove brokers from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and focus on digitalizing services.[6] He oversaw the introduction of a new curriculum of commercial drivers education that sought to reduce sexual harassment.[7]
In May 2021, Nuri met with a delegation from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) who requested Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha repair and improve roads connecting sector-12 of Uttara to BGMEA headquarters.[2] On 20 December 2021, he was promoted to secretary.[8]
Nuri blamed the contractor for the collapse of a girder of an under-construction elevated expressway of the Bus Rapid Transit project that resulted in fatalities.[9] He worked with Obaidul Quader, Minister of Road Transport and Bridges, to award a contract for 137 buses for Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit to their preferred contractor.[10] He and Monjur Hossain, Secretary of Bridges Division, blamed pedestrians and commuters for increasing road fatalities in Bangladesh.[11] He oversaw the opening of the first metro rail of Bangladesh, Dhaka Metro Rail.[12][13]
Nuri was reappointed Secretary of the Road Transport and Highways Division on a contract on 26 June 2024.[14] He was given a contractual appointment along with Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah, principal secretary of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[15] His contractual appointment was cancelled after the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, along with 10 other secretaries.[16] The ten others are K. M. Abdus Salam, Khairul Islam, Lokman Hossain Miah, Md. Mokammel Hossain, Md. Humayun Kabir, Md. Ali Hossain, Satyajit Karmaker, and Wahida Akter.[16]
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