Cabinet approves draft bill to ensure adequate iodine in salt

The Cabinet on Wednesday gave the final approval to the draft of the Iodised Salt Bill, 2020, aiming to ensure proportionate mixture of iodine in salt and regulate the salt market in the country, reports UNB.

The approval came from the weekly Cabinet meeting held virtually with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

The Prime Minister joined the meeting through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban, while other cabinet members got connected from the Bangladesh Secretariat "Under the proposed law, a 14-member national salt committee, headed by the Industries Secretary as its chairman, will be formed to oversee production, processing, refining, storage, transportation and marketing of salt, ensuring iodine in salt, supply iodine to the salt factory, regulating salt import, as well as to place recommendations over salt management policy," said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam at a press briefing after the meeting.