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2019-07-14 22:51:53 BdST

PM issues 30-point directives to DCs


Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued 30- point directives to the deputy commissioners (DCs).

The prime minister gave the directives while inaugurating the five-day DCs
Conference-2019 at the Prime Minister’s Office here. Following are the
directives:

1. Remain alert so that people do not become victims of harassment and
deprivation in receiving government services.

2. Perform responsibilities more carefully and strictly for maintaining
peace-discipline and stability in all spheres of the life by eliminating
militancy, terrorism and communalism.

3. Take all necessary steps to continue the drives against narcotics to
save the youths from the menace.

4. Create massive mass awareness to prevent production, transportation and
marketing of adulterated food and curb the unethical acts with iron hands.

5. Give importance to round-the-clock monitoring of market system and give
consumer rights to an institutional shape and curb any efforts to create an
artificial crisis in market with iron hands.

6. Ensure proper legal steps for stopping violence, torture and hostile
attitude against women and checking woman and child trafficking.

7. Work with responsibilities for freeing social menaces like woman and
child repression and trafficking, dowry, eve-teasing and early marriage.

8. Remain vigilant about protecting government land by increasing
transparency and efficiency in land administration and management.

9. Raise mass awareness about protecting environment and ensure proper
enforcement of laws and rules related to it.

10. Take strict steps for maintaining peace in industrial zone and making
uninterrupted transportation of goods and export-import and eliminating
muscle power, extortion, tender manipulation and terrorism.

11. Take all necessary measures for smooth supply of fertilizers, seeds,
electricity and fuel etc in boosting agriculture production.

12. Take special measures for the welfare of the disabled and autistic people and
disadvantageous communities.

13. Work together with public representatives in establishing good
governance at the grassroots level.

14. Take a motto for development of rural infrastructure and flourishing
potential small and medium scale industries as well as alleviating poverty
through generating employment.

15. Make effective the village courts for providing justice to common
people easily and reduce case backlog at the courts.

16. Give a strong leadership for development and flourishing information
and communication technology (ICT) and encourage the common people of the
district in using the ICT for daily need.

17. Take steps for raising female education rate at all levels, reducing
the rate of leaving schools by the students and bringing back the dropped out
students to the mainstream.

18. Strengthen further the activities of the community clinics in order to
ensure healthcare services for the poor and underprivileged communities.

19. Take right steps at right time to mitigate natural disasters as per the
Disaster Management Law, 2012 and permanent directives related to the law.

20. The deputy commissioners perform their responsibilities as a head of
different committees at the district level. So these committees will have to
be active, dynamic and fruitful.

21. Gear up the activities like arranging Information Fair and observing
Service Week to reach the existing services of the offices to the grassroots.

22. Ensure scope of education, sports, entertainment and creative cultural
activities for fulfilling the nutrition demand of the children and juveniles
and their physical and mental growth. Awaken the spirit of the liberation
war, sense of culture and science mindedness among the children and
juveniles.

23. Alongside accelerating development of the hill districts, conserve geo-
natural characteristics, forests, rivers-waterbodies, animal resources and
beauty of alpines of the region. Extend allout cooperation to flourish
tourism industry, small and medium size industries and traditional cottage
industry.

24. Take necessary measures for celebration of the birth centenary of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2020 from the
central level to grassroots level.

25. Celebrate golden jubilee of independence in 2021 by establishing Sonar
Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu.

26. Take effective steps for waste management and expand the programme at
district, upazila and union levels.

27. Undertake development projects as per the need of the district.

28. Strengthen the local government system by decentralising power and
take uplift schemes to fulfill demand and ensure better life of the people.

29. Make arrangements for entertainment of the people and play a role in
maintaining communal harmony. Give attention to improve the living standard
of the ethnic minority groups and Hijra and Bede communities.

30. Take effective measures for rehabilitation of the landless, homeless
and beggars.

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