Bangladesh News

Secretaries of the government at a meeting yesterday decided to work in a coordinated way to speed up the administrative activities for fully implementation of its development programmes.

The meeting, held at the cabinet division of the Secretariat, decided to prepare a detail work plan to fulfil targets set by the government in food, energy, healthcare, information technology and education sectors.

“Secretaries of different ministries and divisions decided to visit districts regularly for supervising and monitoring activities of the field administration,” Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told The Daily Star last night.

Apart from a comprehensive work plan, individual ministry will also make its plan to implement the targets, he said.

“Immediate recruitment in the vacant positions in public service was one of the major issues of discussion,” Sobhan said adding a large number of posts in different ministry have remained vacant.

The meeting also discussed dividing the Public Service Commission (PSC) in three separate divisions for recruitment. One division will recruit first class officers, another division will recruit non-cadre officers while the rest will recruit in technical posts, sources at the meeting said.

Some secretaries talked about the new warrant of precedence declared by the High Court on February 4. But the discussion did not continue as the Supreme Court stayed for six weeks the HC verdict, the sources said.

The home secretary said that they emphasised on executing family planning programmes properly to check population boom.

“We also decided how to increase cultivable lands by checking its ongoing reduction for ensuring food production in future,” he said.

Cabinet Secretary Md Abdul Aziz chaired the meeting.

Increasing energy production, eradication of poverty and inequity, job for one youth of a family, making the country illiteracy-free, trial of war criminals, ensuring food security and healthcare are major pledges of the government.