The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will formulate its recommendations this month aimed at preventing corruption in the ministries.

ACC Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdury said this while talking to reporters after a meeting at the Secretariat with senior officials of the Local Government Division and its departments.

As part of its campaign to curb institutional corruption, the ACC held the meeting to find out the causes of corruption in the Local Government Division. Earlier, the commission also held meetings with the officials of the land ministry.

The ACC will hold such meetings with two more ministries this month before finalising the recommendations.

Lt Gen (retd) Mashhud said the commission would also hold meetings with government hierarchies about implementation of the recommendations.

He said the Local Government Division has been requested to open a cell to receive corruption-related allegations. The issue of opening such cell in every ministry will be included in the ACC recommendations.

During the meeting, the ACC chairman urged the Local Government Division officials to take initiatives to stop such corruption that could be stopped forthwith. He also called for intensifying high-level monitoring to stop all kinds of corruption.

ACC Commissioners Habibur Rahman and Abul Hasan Manjur Mannan, Local Government Division Secretary Sheikh Khurshid Alam and other senior officials attended the meeting.

The anti-graft watchdog will soon hold meetings with the ministries of health and communication.