DC conference begins Tuesday

Secretariat Correspondent: The annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs) will be held in the capital from July 24 to 26.

The main programme of the three-day DC conference will be held at Shapla Hall at Prime Minister's Office where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference at 10:00 am on Tuesday.

Cabinet Division Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) NM Ziaul Alam told this at a press conference on Monday.

A view exchange meeting will be held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around 11:30 am on the first day of the conference, he said.

At least 18 working sessions will be held in this year’s conference and ministers, advisors, state-ministers, deputy ministers and senior secretaries of 52 ministries and divisions will participate in the conference.

The cabinet secretary will preside over all the sessions.

Some 347 proposals made by the DCs will be discussed in the conference, he added.

Regarding the main topics of the conference, Ziaul Alam said the main topics of the conference are—land management, development of law and order situation, 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 implementation of the activities.


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