6-month Review of Budget Implementation :Big ministries spend less than half of allocation

Ministries of education, and primary and mass education have performed best in overall budget implementation in the first six months of the current fiscal year while the agriculture ministry is lagging far behind. The finance ministry recently reviewed the status of budget implementation by 10 big ministries and divisions, which received 41.5 percent allocation of the total budget layout. These ministries and divisions spent 35.3 percent of their total allocation in the first six months of FY 2009-10.

PMO asks ministries to list govt activities for anniversary

The Prime Minister’s Office has asked all the secretaries and chiefs of divisions to prepare a list of government decisions along with the state of their implementation and to send it to the PMO by November 15. ‘The government is going to complete its one year [in office] on January 6, 2010. The government is working sincerely to establish a digital Bangladesh and implement the election pledges. Various steps have, meanwhile, been taken,’ said the letter, dated October 25, signed by the PMO secretary, Mollah Waheduzzaman.

Be ministers of country, not districts: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked her Cabinet colleagues not to be the ministers of their own districts but to be the ministers of the country. She also asked them to work sincerely in coordination with all the ministries, said sources. Hasina, also president of her party, was addressing the Awami League Parliamentary Party’s meeting in the conference room of the ruling party in the Parliament.

Beware of mobile guns: Home Ministry cautions other ministries

The Ministry of Home Affairs directed the 38 ministries and their concerned organisations to be aware of mobile gun during holding any official programmes to ensure securities for protection of VVIPs, including the President and the Prime Minister.

ACC to start drive against different ministries next month

Drive against banks, NGOs, hospitals, tax offices being delayed for want of expertise

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to launch a massive drive against widespread corruptions prevailing in different ministries as well as directorates, departments and projects under those.

Gen. Mubin: Drive Against Different Ministries: July 9, 2008

Coordinator of National Coordination Committee for Grievous Offences (NCC) Lt. Gen. Mubin speaks to the press after his meeting with the chairman of ACC in the capital on Tuesday.
Photo: Banglar Chokh