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DC confce ends with pledge to speed up dev


Bangladeshpost
Published : 19 Jul 2019 09:03 PM | Updated : 01 Sep 2020 10:28 AM

S M Mizanur Rahman

The five-day annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs) ended on Thursday with pledge to continue drives against corruption, drugs and terrorism, and accelerate the ongoing development process of the country. Being imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War and patriotism, the DCs have pledged to work with devotion and perfection to materialise the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, according to the public administration ministry and cabinet division officials.

The DCs have also expressed their determination to help the government achieve its ultimate aim is to building a happy, prosperous, justified, knowledge-based ‘Digital Bangladesh’, which will be free from the curses of hunger, poverty, militancy, corruption and drugs. They also expressed their firm determination to go gear up grassroots administration and analyse and evaluate the government’s policy execution at grassroots level.

During the five-day conference that started on July 14, the DCs took part in the 29 sessions and placed 333 proposals. The President, prime minister, ministers, advisers to the PM, state ministers, deputy ministers and secretaries attended different sessions and gave directives to the deputy commissioners and divisional commissioners on various issues. “During the five days of this conference, we have been asked to expedite implementation of the ongoing various development programmes,” a deputy commissioner said.

Besides, he added, they have also been assigned to maintain law and order, resolve land-related problems, strengthen activities of local government institutions, disaster management and implement the poverty alleviation programmes. Deputy commissioners from all 64 districts of the country participated in the annual conference in capital Dhaka.

During the session President M Abdul Hamid asked the divisional and deputy commissioners (DCs) to serve as real ‘public servants’ and give priority to greater interests of the country. “In your respective workplaces, keep up the difference between responsibilities and powers . . . Don’t misuse power. Reach government services to people’s doorsteps,” he told the administrative chiefs of divisions and districts at the Durbar Hall of Bangabhaban.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also issued 31-point directives to the deputy commissioners (DCs). “Remain alert so that people do not become victims of harassment and deprivation in receiving government services,” the PM told the DCs. She also asked them to further speed up their activities to keep up the ongoing development spree to make Bangladesh a developed and prosperous country.

“To maintaining the pace of the ongoing development of the country is an absolute need to transform Bangladesh into a developed and prosperous one by 2041. You (DCs) should work keeping it in mind,” she said. Amid the growing connectivity with big neighbour India, the government is now thinking of giving an authority to the deputy commissioners so that they can resolve border-related local problems along the Bangladesh-India frontier locally.

A proposal was put forward during the deputy commissioners’ conference to set up a specialised police force under each deputy commissioner’s office for overall security of their offices, circuit houses and for operations of mobile courts. In this regard Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that the ministry would not assemble any specialised police force as demanded by deputy commissioners for their protection and support.

On other hand, the government is considering setting up a separate bank to go by a demand from employees of the public administration. During the meeting, DCs sought the government’s approval for setting up a separate bank for employees of the administration.