PM asks to rein in essentials prices
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the ministry and authorities concerned to take immediate steps to keep the prices of essentials within the buying capacity of commoners during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
She also directed the authorities of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh to import essentials as soon as possible and supply those to the open market ahead of Ramadan.
The PM further instructed the communications ministry and the city corporations to ensure proper management of traffic movement during the month of fasting and religious festival.
"Our main aim is to ensure people's maximum welfare. We will do everything so that people do not suffer from anything during the upcoming holy Ramadan," Hasina said at the 31st meeting of her cabinet.
Briefing reporters in the conference room of press information department on the cabinet meeting, PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, said the cabinet congratulated Hasina on her election as the vice-chair of the Nam for the next three years.
Hasina told her cabinet colleagues that Nam needs to be more organised and strengthened for betterment of the developing and least developed countries.
She said if the Nam could be made more organised, Bangladesh, like other member-countries, would also be benefited economically.
Azad said the cabinet approved a proposal for relaxing the conditions of attaining requisite qualifications by the teachers of non-government registered primary schools.
According to the new rules, the teachers having job tenure of 17-25 years will not need post graduate certificate in education (PGCE) to be considered as qualified as teachers.
On this issue, Hasina observed that there are many secretaries and ministers who had taken primary education from such primary school teachers. "Then how such teachers can be declared disqualified!"
Earlier, years back, court had declared 21522 teachers disqualified, as they did not have PGCE.
The cabinet meeting also approved The Local Government (UP) Act 2009, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre Act 2009, Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Ordinance 2009, and The Mobile Court Act 2009.
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