2024-03-04 23:28:20
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed all concerned especially the field level administration to ensure that the building code is maintained in the construction of buildings across the country. At the same time, he ordered to be strict against any kind of food hoarding and adulteration in view of Ramadan.
The Prime Minister gave this order while inaugurating the four-day annual conference of District Administrators (DC) at the Shapla Hall of his office (PMO) on Sunday.
The Prime Minister said that everyone should pay attention to ensure that the building code is followed in the construction of the establishment. Not only where there is a city corporation, but everywhere universally this should be accepted. Fire fighting system, adequate light and air supply system, rain water storage system should be built keeping them.
The Prime Minister thanked the Dhaka district administration for rushing to the accident site on the recent fire-damaged Bailey Road and standing by the people.
He instructed the field administration to take effective measures to ensure that the three-crop arable land cannot be used for any other purpose including houses or industries. He said, “We have to protect the crop land.”
The Prime Minister said that the government is developing the country, besides ensuring the rights of the people of the country. He said the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic and the Ukraine-Russia war on the world economy. There are countries in the world now where inflation has risen to 40%. Bangladesh is not far from it, although inflation is still below 10 percent. But still the problem remains. We always have to keep an eye on our market conditions.
The Prime Minister said that the month of Ramadan is coming. At this time, some businessmen want to steal profits by increasing the price of products by hoarding all the time. We have to pay attention to that, because it is our urgent task.
He said that consumers should not be subjected to any kind of harassment anywhere. We need to increase domestic production. Dependency must be reduced, and we have proven in many cases that we can do it. It is absolutely necessary to pay attention to it.
Sheikh Hasina said, another issue is supply. Problems are created with that too or attempts are made to create an artificial crisis. Some hoard. The product will rot, but will not leave the market. Strict legal measures need to be taken with a special focus on that.
He said, I said these words before the month of Ramadan. Ensuring that essential products reach the common people properly. That’s why everyone should pay attention.
Urging the District Commissioners to come forward to prevent adulteration of food, the Chief Minister said that during fasting these problems actually occur more. It is absolutely necessary to pay attention to these.
Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain spoke on the occasion. Cabinet Secretary Md. gave a welcome speech. Mahbub Hossain. Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister also spoke. Tofajzel Hossain Mia. Dhaka Divisional Commissioner Md spoke on behalf of the Divisional Commissioners. Chittagong DC Abul Bashar Mohammad Fakhruzzaman and Gaibandha DC Kazi Nahid Rasul spoke on behalf of Sabirul Islam and District Commissioners. A video documentary on innovation, service and overall development of local administration was screened at the event.
Referring to the ‘teenage gang problem in our society’, the Prime Minister said that this problem arises when boys and girls go to school and study. He pointed out that it spread during the course of Covid-19, which is when it came to the fore.
He said, for this, the area-based surveillance should be increased. Those who will study, why will they engage in various anti-social activities instead of doing that? In this regard, commissioners and district administrators should create awareness among the parents of various schools, colleges and educational institutions, so that no one’s son or daughter can get involved in such juvenile gangs, militancy, terrorism and drug addiction. That’s why every family should increase the vigilance of their children.
Urging to focus on prevention rather than remedy, he said, families need to be made aware that there is no use in just arresting or arresting them. In that case, by coming in contact with the big criminals there, they can get involved with some kind of bigger criminal organization. That’s why we have to start from scratch and start with family.
He urged the administration at the field level to encourage and create awareness among the people to pay taxes, adopt universal pension scheme, encourage agriculture through cooperatives, take initiatives to ensure the use of solar panels for irrigation and develop an integrated market system and bring every inch of uncultivated land under cultivation in the country. .
Besides creating awareness to deal with the adverse effects of climate change, preventing the use of underground water and ensuring the conservation of surface reservoirs and its use, taking measures to prevent salinity and carrying out necessary excavations, maintenance of water treatment plants to ensure the supply of clean water to the people, waste management, social security of the government. Ensuring monitoring of the programs and ensuring that the beneficiaries are getting the benefits, monitoring the beneficiaries of the shelter schemes and solving their problems, encouraging the youth to take advantage of the government facilities for entrepreneurship and building skilled manpower for the 4th industrial revolution. He urged to encourage students in technical education.
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He said, the more boys and girls can be ensured to participate in sports and cultural activities, the more terrorism-militancy, drugs and other criminal tendencies among them will be reduced. For this reason, he urged the district administration to pay attention to the speedy implementation of upazila-based mini stadium construction projects and organizing various competitions for students throughout the year.
Urging the field level administration to keep an eye on the government’s project acceptance and implementation, he said, he urged him to provide a direct report if necessary on whether the projects are being implemented properly and to what extent they will benefit the local people. He again made everyone aware that the project should not be done only in name.
He also urged them to take necessary initiatives to present the glorious history of the Liberation War to the next generation by preserving the memorials, memorials and mass graves of the Liberation War and to highlight the significance of national days including Martyr’s Day and International Mother Language Day to the new generation.