Keep prices within commoners' reach during Ramadan: PM
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday asked the ministry and authorities concerned to take immediate steps to keep the prices of essentials within the common man's buying capacity during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, reports UNB.
She also directed the authorities of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) to import essentials as soon as possible and supply those to the open market ahead of Ramadan, likely to begin on August 23.
The Prime Minister further instructed the communications ministry and the city corporations to ensure proper management of traffic movement during the month of fasting and religious festival.
"Our main aim is to ensure people's maximum welfare. We will do everything so that people do not suffer from anything during the upcoming holy Ramadan," Hasina said at the 31st meeting of her Cabinet.
Briefing reporters in the conference room of Press Information Department (PID) on the Cabinet meeting, the PM's press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, said the Cabinet congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her election as the vice-chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) for the next three years.
Hasina told her Cabinet colleagues that NAM needed to be more organised and strengthened for betterment of developing and least developed countries.
She said if the NAM could be made more organised, Bangladesh, like other member-countries, would also be benefited economically.
Azad said the Cabinet approved a proposal for relaxing the conditions of attaining requisite qualifications by the teachers of non-government registered primary schools.
According to the new rules, the teachers having job tenure of 17-25 years will not need certificate in education to be considered as qualified as teachers.
On this issue, the Prime Minister observed that there were many secretaries and ministers who had taken primary education from such primary school teachers. "Then how such teachers can be declared disqualified!"
Earlier, years back, a court had declared 21,522 teachers disqualified, as they did not have certificates in education.
Monday's Cabinet meeting also approved 'The Local Government (UP) Act 2009', Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre Act 2009', 'Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Ordinance 2009, and 'The Mobile Court Act 2009'.
She also directed the authorities of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) to import essentials as soon as possible and supply those to the open market ahead of Ramadan, likely to begin on August 23.
The Prime Minister further instructed the communications ministry and the city corporations to ensure proper management of traffic movement during the month of fasting and religious festival.
"Our main aim is to ensure people's maximum welfare. We will do everything so that people do not suffer from anything during the upcoming holy Ramadan," Hasina said at the 31st meeting of her Cabinet.
Briefing reporters in the conference room of Press Information Department (PID) on the Cabinet meeting, the PM's press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, said the Cabinet congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her election as the vice-chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) for the next three years.
Hasina told her Cabinet colleagues that NAM needed to be more organised and strengthened for betterment of developing and least developed countries.
She said if the NAM could be made more organised, Bangladesh, like other member-countries, would also be benefited economically.
Azad said the Cabinet approved a proposal for relaxing the conditions of attaining requisite qualifications by the teachers of non-government registered primary schools.
According to the new rules, the teachers having job tenure of 17-25 years will not need certificate in education to be considered as qualified as teachers.
On this issue, the Prime Minister observed that there were many secretaries and ministers who had taken primary education from such primary school teachers. "Then how such teachers can be declared disqualified!"
Earlier, years back, a court had declared 21,522 teachers disqualified, as they did not have certificates in education.
Monday's Cabinet meeting also approved 'The Local Government (UP) Act 2009', Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre Act 2009', 'Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Ordinance 2009, and 'The Mobile Court Act 2009'.