Shawdesh desk:

Prime minister’s assistant press secretary MM Emrul Kayas has been promoted to the post of deputy press secretary at the prime minister’s office.

The public administration ministry on Wednesday issued a notification in this regard.

Earlier, Emrul Kayas, a 28th batch Bangladesh Civil Service information cadre, became deputy secretary of the government.

He was serving as the prime minister’s assistant press secretary since 2016.

Emrul Kayas was born in 1978 in a respected Muslim family at village Kamshia of Naragati Thana in Narail and passed his childhood in Khulna.

He obtained his honours and master degrees in English Language and Literature from English department of Jahangirnagar University.

Before joining the civil service, Emrul Kayas served as English lecturer at different colleges, including Dhaka Residential Model College, in the capital city for five and a half years.