PM asks DCs to help ensure good governance

FE Team | Published: July 09, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Issuing 24 directives to help the government to ensure good governance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked on Tuesday the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to discharge their responsibilities rising above fear and allurement, and remain active for protecting the interests of people, reports UNB.
She also asked them to dedicate themselves to public welfare not only as public servants but as patriotic citizens of the country, and to encourage their colleagues about it.
The Prime Minister gave the directives while addressing the 'Deputy Commissioners' Conference 2014' at the International Conference Centre of her office.
Hasina directed the DCs to work closely with public representatives for establishing good governance at the grassroots level.
She also asked them to ensure proper and timely implementation of government's decisions at the field level and take leadership in flourishing and development of information technology (IT).
Hasina said the continuity of a government is needed for the desired development of the country and for the first time an elected government is performing its duty for the second consecutive time.
Taking this advantage, she said, her government has been working ceaselessly to ensure the overall welfare of the country's people through implementing various development programmes.
In this context, the Prime Minister thanked them for successfully holding the January-5 election despite various adversities.
Hasina said it is not possible to achieve the desired development without a long-term development plan, and her government for the first time adopted a perspective plan for 2010-2021 in addition to implementing the sixth five-year plan.
She said the government is going to adopt the seventh five-year plan and sought suggestions of the DCs on problems and potentials of their respective areas.
Hasina underscored the need for strengthening transparency and accountability to establish good governance at every sector from the state to society level through expanding and implementing e-governance.
In this context, she asked them to be careful so that common people are not harassed while receiving government services.
The Prime Minister asked them to maintain peace, order and stability at every level of life through removing militancy and terrorism.
She said the DCs should work to prevent different social menaces like woman and child repression and trafficking, misuse of drug, eve-teasing, dowry, and child marriage.
Hasina said spending for education is not mere expenditure but it is an investment and if her government could afford she would have made free the country's entire education.
Elaborating her government's steps for flourishing education, including providing free textbooks, stipends, financial help for poor parents and introduction of midday meals, Sheikh Hasina told the DCs to take steps to check dropout and bring the dropped out students to the mainstream.
The Prime Minister said universities would be established in every district under both public and private initiatives to make the higher education available at the local level.
She also asked them to take stern actions against the drug peddling and trafficking and its misuse.
Referring to the Ashrayan project of the government to provide houses to homeless people, Sheikh Hasina directed the DCs to take necessary initiatives to ensure houses for all the homeless people.
"Not a single person would remain homeless," she said adding that the government will procure lands for constructing houses for the homeless people if there is no khas land in any district.
Putting emphasis on keeping the prices of the essentials within the capacity of the common people, Sheikh Hasina asked the DCs to strongly prevent any ill-move to raise the prices of essentials through an artificial crisis during the holy month of Ramadan.
Seeking all-out cooperation of the DCs to implementing the proposed Formalin Control Act to ensure poison-free foods for people, the Prime Minister asked the Cabinet Secretary to send a guideline to the DCs over the tolerance level of formalin in foods.