Cabinet approves fertiliser law
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Cabinet approved on Monday the draft of "The Fertiliser (Management) (Amendment) Bill, 2018" making the punishment tougher by raising jail term and fine to make the existing law more time- befitting one, reports UNB.
The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
The draft law was approved bringing some changes in the previously framed 'The Fertiliser (Management) Act 2006,' Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said while briefing the reporters after the meeting.
He said the punishment for production, import, transportation, distribution, marketing or sale of fertiliser without having any registration licence has been increased to maximum two-year imprisonment or up to Tk 0.5 million as fine or both instead of the existing maximum six-month imprisonment or up to Tk 30,000 as fine or both in the Clause 08 of the draft bill.
If anyone files 'false case' under the proposed law to harass another person, the person who lodged the case will face the same punishment mentioned for the offenders in the proposed law, said Shafiul Alam.
In the proposed law, the number of members of the National Fertiliser Standardisation Committee has been increased to 17 from existing 15.
Cabinet also approved the draft of 'The National Skills Development Authority Act, 2018' re-organising a few provisions to make it more time-befitting one.
Cabinet Secretary said there is no major change in the proposed law.
As per the draft law there will be a 30-member Governing Body headed by the Prime Minister and this body will sit for meeting at least once a year.
Besides, there will be a 17-member Executive Committee headed by the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, which will hold at least three meetings a year.
At the beginning of the meeting, the cabinet adopted felicitation motion for Bangladesh Women Cricket Team for clinching the first international cup by beating India by three wickets in the final match of the 7th T20 Asia Cup in Malaysia recently.