3-day DC conference begins July 24

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DHAKA, June 21, 2018 (BSS) – Three-day conference of the Deputy
Commissioners (DCs), an annual meeting of the heads of districts with policy
makers of the government, will begin on July 24.

“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference at the Prime
Minister’s Office (PMO) on July 24 . . . the conference will continue till
July 26,” additional secretary of the cabinet division Faruk Ahmed told BSS.

The cabinet division organizes the DC conference each year, aimed to gear
up grassroots administration, accelerate development activities of the
government, analyze and evaluate the government’s policy execution at
grassroots level and hold direct view-exchange meeting between the
government’s policymakers and DCs, he said.

Noting that the DC conference is a very important programme of the state,
the official said an open discussion with the prime minister usually takes
place and the premier gives a patient hearing of different problems of the
DCs across the country and gives them necessary directives.

Ministers, advisers, state ministers, deputy ministers, senior secretaries
and secretaries concerned will attend the DC conference. Cabinet secretary
Mohammad Shafiul Alam will preside over the programme.