PM reiterates to decentralise power

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her firm commitment to decentralise power for empowerment and more participation of the people in running state and the national development activities. ‘We believe that the local government will have to be strengthened further by decentralising power. Whatever the local government gets strengthened, the people will receive that much services,’ she said. She said though the size of the country is small, the population is big. ‘So it is very difficult to provide services to the huge population. But we will have to do that difficult task,’ she said while addressing officials of the Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives Ministry during her visit to the ministry at the Secretariat on Thursday. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam spoke on the occasion. The Prime Minister also blasted the post-75 military rulers for not giving attention to strengthen the local government bodies, according to BSS.