Hasina orders steps for price control during Ramadan

BSS, Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday instructed the concerned ministries to take required steps to keep prices of essentials within the reach of ordinary people during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan as she chaired the weekly cabinet meeting.
"She (Sheikh Hasina) particularly asked the concerned authorities to import essential items through TCB (Trading Corporation of Bangladesh) and ensure their quick marketing," Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad told newsmen after the meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat here.
He said the Prime Minister also issued a directive to the other concerned officials to ease Dhaka's notorious traffic congestion and remove other civic problems to smoothen the city life during the holy month.
"The goal of our government is to ensure overall welfare of the people," Azad quoted her as telling the cabinet meeting.
The press secretary said the cabinet colleagues congratulated Hasina on her election as the vice chairman of the Non Alignment Movement (NAM) while she said NAM should be strengthen further for the benefit of the developing nations like Bangladesh.
"Bangladesh will definitely play a crucial role in strengthening the Non Align Movement," she said.
The cabinet today gave its final nod to a proposal for relaxing the qualification for registered no-government primary school teachers, Local Govt (UP) Act 2009, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre Act 2009, Mobile Court Act 2009, Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Ordinance.
The proposal for relaxing the qualification for non- government primary teachers said those who already spent 17 to 25 years in service would not require the Certificate in Education.
The earlier provision said the registered primary school teachers would require at least second division in their SSC or HSC certificates, a rule under which the government grant of 21,522 teachers were stopped.
Local Government (UP) Act 2009 suggested provisions for strengthening the lowest tier of the local governance system through people's participation while the mobile court act proposed some measures for maintaining law and order awarding instantly the offenders for particular offences.