Dont bow down to any pressure
Obaidul Quader asks DCs
Special Correspondent
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday asked deputy commissioners (DCs) not to bow down to any pressure under any circumstances.
Do not bow down to any pressure dont do anything that could embarrass the government, he told DCs at a session on the second day of the three-day DC Conference at the Secretariat in the capital.
Quader, also the Awami League general secretary, later briefed reporters after the session of his ministry.
I also asked them to take steps in their respective areas so that people can travel smoothly to celebrate Eid and return to their work stations without any hassles, Quader said.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu asked the DCs to be more serious about maintaining the law and order until the next national polls scheduled to be held in December this year.
Even though the law and order situation is under control, I have asked the field officials to be more serious in maintaining the law and order until the parliamentary election so that polling could be held in a peaceful and credible manner, he said.
Amu, also chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order, said he asked the DCs to help continue the ongoing anti-drug drive as per the Prime Ministers directive. We will do everything to eradicate drugs from the country. Drug traders will be punished. The senior minister said he advised the DCs to repair fertiliser godowns to ensure fertiliser management.
At an another session of the DCs conference, the minister for environment, forest and climate change, Anisul Islam Mahmud, advised the DCs to plant trees in the hilly areas to prevent landslides. It is difficult to prevent landslides in the hilly areas, as some people are building houses even after being evicted from the hills. Landslides would occur during the rainy season, but we should be careful, he said.
He advised the field officials to not lease hilly areas to prevent landslides.
He also said Rohingyas have destroyed trees on five acres of the hilly terrain in Coxs Bazar.
At a session of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, its minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal said the government has taken up a project to build the proposed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Airport and the Khan Jahan Ali airport. The feasibility study of the proposed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Airport is going on, he added.
We advised the DCs to take help to implement the two important projects successfully, he said.
The civil aviation minister also said they were going to expand and develop the Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport and the Coxs Bazar Airport. He sought the help of the DCs in this regard. The food minister, Md Qamrul Islam, at a session with the DCs yesterday, asked the field officials to take steps to implement the zero hunger policy to build a hunger- and poverty-free Bangladesh. After a meeting with the DCs, water resources minister Anwar Hossain Manju told reporters that he did not give any directives to the field officials.
The LGRD minister, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, after a session of the DCs conference yesterday, admitted that there were differences of opinion between the DCs and local political leaders. But it is not a problem. We asked the DCs to complete all the projects within the shortest possible time, he added. He advised the field officials to pay special attention to the ongoing ekti bari, ekti khamar project in their respective areas.
