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Prime Minister Hasina instructs secretaries to ensure food security

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 28 Nov 2022, 11:47 am

Dhaka, November 28: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given instructions to the secretaries to ensure food security in the country so that food stocks do not decrease under any circumstances.

Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam said this in a press conference organized to announce the decision of the Secretary's meeting at the Cabinet Conference Room of the Secretariat on Sunday.

Earlier, a secretarial meeting was held at the Prime Minister's office. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. The Cabinet Secretary said, "The country currently has 1.6 lakh metric tons of food stock. Necessary measures should be taken to ensure that the food stock does not decrease."

He said that instructions have also been given to ensure that the food-related programs including OMS, VGD, VGF and TCB are properly managed.

The Cabinet Secretary said that government employees will no longer have to give separate account of assets to the government. Every year during the filing of returns, the one-page statement of assets must be submitted to the Ministry of Public Administration.

He said, "NBR, I and the Public Administration Secretary were sitting. We have cleared the matter that there is no need to separate the account of assets. Every year we give the return, where we have to give the account of assets in one page, we will give that page to Public Administration. "

Khandaker Anwarul Islam said that the secretaries have been instructed to keep an eye on the fact that the militants cannot take any shelter or help or any financial benefit.

He said, they have been asked to be especially careful about militants. Because you have seen in Chittagong Hill Tracts, the police have detected some militants (Ansarullah Bangla Team) and several of them have been arrested. The rest escaped.

Khandaker Anwarul Islam said that the Prime Minister has given various instructions regarding the current global economic issues. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has also given instructions to protect transparency and neutrality in project implementation. He said, IMF has said that the year 2023 will pass through difficult situation. At this time, the price of the dollar will increase.

He also said that necessary instructions have been given to the secretaries regarding keeping the commodity prices affordable and e-registration of land mutation and ensuring good governance. The Cabinet Secretary also said that 17 secretaries spoke in the meeting.