Cabinet okays draft of Unnayan Gobeshona Protishthan Act\\\'

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday instructed her cabinet members to carry out the government's development agenda for next four years to turn Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021.
At a meeting with the cabinet members, she also approved the draft of 'Bangladesh Unnayan Gobeshona Protishthan Act-2015' to expedite the activities of the organisation.
 "The cabinet has given final nod to the draft of the law subject to vetting from the ministry of law," Cabinet Secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting.
 "It is basically an updated Bangla version of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Act-1974," he said, adding that all previous amendments and ordinances were incorporated in the new law.
He said the draft law had been prepared in Bangla in line with the verdict of the Supreme Court, nullifying all laws and ordinances passed during the regimes of two military rulers between 1975 and 1990.
The BIDS is an autonomous public multidisciplinary organisation which conducts policy-oriented research on development issues being dealt with by Bangladesh and other developing countries.
The cabinet was apprised of the participation of the commerce minister in the meeting of the Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) at Istanbul from November 25-28 last year and at a forum titled "Global Garments Industry after Rana Plaza: The Way Forward" in Melbourne, Australia from November 17-22, 2014.
The cabinet was also apprised of the participation of the Bangladesh delegation, led by the planning minister, at a Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok from November 24-28, 2014.
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