Monday, July 14th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) asked the caretaker government to reshuffle the field level public administration to facilitate holding of the long overdue upazila parishad elections and the stalled ninth parliamentary poll respectively in October and December this year.At a meeting with Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed on Saturday, the EC apprised the military backed caretaker government chief about the commission's plans and preparations, and asked his government to prepare the public administration for the polls by reshuffling it."Top officials of the field level administration, who will be engaged in election duties, must be changed," Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has put emphasis on the necessity of large-scale regional cooperation to ensure better life for people through poverty alleviation in the Bimstec region."We must assess the challenges and opportunities for economic cooperation in our region and reaffirm our resolve for collaboration to strengthen Bimstec's ability to find ways and means for addressing those challenges and opportunities efficiently and effectively," he said.The chief adviser was addressing the inauguration of the Bimstec Ministerial Conference on Poverty Alleviation at a city hotel yesterday.In this context, Fakhruddin asked the member countries to consider the impacts of global warming and climate ...
(read more) Monday, June 23rd, 2008Reaffirming the caretaker government's commitment to hold general elections in December, Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said his administration is working to ensure that the elections are free from the influence of money, muscle and misuse of authority.He said this when a six-member delegation of the board of directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), led by Sebastian Paust, called on him at his office where they discussed political and socio-economic issues of the country.As the delegation appreciated the government's ongoing dialogue with political parties, Fakhruddin said he and the Election Commission (EC) staked out many times that the ...
(read more) Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday appreciated the lawyers for their role in establishing the rule of law in the country and hoped that they would maintain their contributions.The CA said this when a delegation of Bangladesh Bar Council, led by Attorney General and Chairman of the Bar Council Fida M Kamal, made a courtesy call on him at the Chief Adviser's Office.The Bar Council leaders reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate with the government in maintaining the rule of law.The delegation members also included Khandokar Mahbub Hossain, Shafique Ahmed, Abdul Baset Majumder, Munsurul Haq Chowdhury and Chisti Sohrab ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 20th, 2007The interim government is seriously thinking of holding elections to the city corporations and municipalities before the general elections, so the Election Commission is going to prepare the voters’ rolls of these areas on a priority basis, said official sources. ‘We have requested the Election Commission to hold elections to three city corporations that include Dhaka, Rajshahi and Khulna, along with 44 municipalities after preparation of the voters’ lists on a priority basis in those areas where the elections have been overdue,’ LGRD and cooperatives adviser Anwarul Iqbal told reporters at the Secretariat on Tuesday. He, ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 20th, 2007The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, has said the present caretaker government is constitutional, accountable to the people and is moving towards holding a free, fair and credible election by the end of the next year. The chief adviser made the remarks when the US ambassador, Patricia A Butenis, made a farewell call on him at his office on Tuesday. Fakhruddin told Butenis, who would leave Bangladesh next week for Iraq to take up her new assignment, that his government was committed to a transparent process, freedom of press and the rule of law. ‘The ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday sounded a strong warning against illegal hill cutting in the port city and said persons involved in such an act would be punished.He gave the warning while talking to reporters in the landslide-hit Kacharigona area, adjacent to Chittagong Cantonment, in the morning.The CA said the army will remain alert and remove people from vulnerable areas to safer places. He also assured the people of resolving the water-logging problem in the port city."Our first task is to rescue, treat and help rehabilitate the affected people," said the head of the caretaker governmentEarlier, after disembarking ...
(read more) Sunday, June 10th, 2007Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday asked the administration cadre officials to take necessary preparations for successful implementation of the national budget after its finalisation. "Success of the budget depends on its implementation. Officials from the secretariat to field-level will have to properly perform their respective duties to implement the budget so that people can get its benefits," he said at the annual dinner of Bangladesh Administrative Service Association at BIAM auditorium in the city.The CA also directed the officials to get prepared for implementing the Annual Development Programme (ADP) within the stipulated time.Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam announced the ...
(read more) Thursday, June 7th, 2007Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) to work together to give institutional shape to all reforms and positive outcomes of the present caretaker government so that the previous unstable situation cannot make a comeback. He also urged the top district officials to play their active role in curbing corruption by involving people at the field level.The chief adviser was inaugurating the Deputy Commissioners' Conference-2007 at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in the morning.The government is pledge-bound to carry out its efforts for uprooting or reducing corruption as far as possible. The drive to curb ...
(read more) Monday, June 4th, 2007Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said his caretaker government is determined to hand over power to an elected government through holding a free, fair and credible election as early as possible."The prime objective of this government is to hold a free, fair and credible election so that honest and competent people get encouraged to contest the polls," he told a big public gathering in Tangail."There would be no difficulties in exercising voting right and the polls would be free from influence of black money and muscle power," he said addressing the inaugural function of National Tree Planting Movement and Tree ...
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