Industries secretary for BSTI offices in every district

Economic Correspondent: Mohammad Abdullah, secretary to the Industries Ministry, has directed to set up offices of Bangladesh Standadrds and Testing Institute (BSTI) in every district to ensure substandard products across the country.

He said, "BSTI offices must be extended to every district and regional level rather than setting up in some districts."

For this, he directed to the authority concern to send an ideal manpower structure proposal to the ministry formally within next February.

The industries secretary came up with the direction while speaking at a programme at the conference room of the Ministry at the capital's Motijheel on Tuesday.

It was a review meeting of the implementation progress of the ministry's part of the Annual Development Programme (ADB) for the current fiscal year (FY18).

The meeting was informed that under the industries ministry there are 43 development projects investing an estimated cost of Tk 1,376.78 crore and of the total projects, 39 are investment, 3 technical and one will be implemented with the own finance of the ministry.

Of the total Tk 1,376.78 crore, the government will provide Tk 1,320.38 crore, Tk 6.40 crore will come as project assistance while Tk 50 crore from the organization's own fund. 

The industries secretary asked the project directors to be more active to ensure timely implementation of their projects and suggested holding meeting of the steering committee frequently to solve project related problems for quick implementation. 

He warned that punitive steps will be taken against the officials concerned if implementation of projects is delayed because of negligence in responsibility.

risingbd/Dhaka/December 26, 2017/Nasir/A K Azad