Staff Reporter :
A three-day long Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Conference-an annual meeting of the heads of district administrations with the policymakers of the government, will start today (Tuesday) in the capital.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference at Shapla Hall of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) at 10am.
DCs of 64 districts and Divisional Commissioners of eight divisions will join the conference while President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Cabinet members and advisers to the PM, secretaries and policy makers of the government will give them necessary instructions. The meeting is viewed with significance before the upcoming national elections scheduled to be held by December this year, sources said.
Additional Secretary of Cabinet Division Faruque Ahmed said that ministers, prime minister’s advisors, state ministers, deputy ministers and secretaries of 52 ministries will take part in the conference featuring 22 general and 18 working sessions.
NM Ziaul Alam, Secretary (Coordination and Reform) of Cabinet Division, told the media in the Secretariat on Monday that a total of 347 proposals have been submitted by the DCs on different issues. The DCs also could express their recommendations during the meetings, he said.
“Law and order situation and land management will get the top priority in the DC’s conference,” he said.
“Local government establishments, disaster management, relief and rehabilitation, poverty redemption, social securities, using of information communication and technologies, development of the quality of education, health services and development activities and difficulties in implementation of the activities will be given priority,” Ziaul Alam said.
He said, DCs conference is a regular issue of the administration, where the policy makers give necessary instructions to the field administration. They will discuss governance issues. The meeting is very much relevant to the government’s project implementation and supervision. Instructions will also be given them on those issues.
The Cabinet Division officials claimed that the DCs usually play vital role as a supervising and implementing authority of the government projects and development works. So, the government policy makers sit with them once every year and give necessary directives about the government’s policies and priorities. In every conference, some decisions were taken.
According to the Cabinet Division, although most of the decisions of earlier meetings were not yet implemented, the policy makers of the government would give some more important instructions and some new decisions would be taken in the conference. The DCs would also place some demands, proposals and suggestions to the authorities concerned for implementation ahead of the polls.
From the conference, the DCs may seek guidelines from the government policymakers to overcome the legal, administrative, financial and other challenges which they are facing at the field level in discharging duties.
The deputy commissioners will also meet President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban during the conference at 7:30 pm on July 25.
The conference will end on July 26.
