The Election Commission (EC) has transferred 23 field-level officials. These officials are working at the upazila level.

Mohammad Shahidur Rahman, Assistant Secretary of the EC’s Manpower Management Branch, issued a notification in this regard on Saturday (November 8).

The notification said that 21 election officers and two upazila election officers have been transferred to different upazilas until further orders. This order will come into effect immediately in the public interest.

The EC wants to hold the elections in the first half of February, with the schedule set for the first half of December. For this, the organization has started transferring staff in its field offices. More than a hundred officials have been transferred before.