Bangladesh Army-run Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited (BMTF) will supply 30 million blank smart cards to the Bangladesh Election Commission (EC).
In a meeting on Tuesday, the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) approved the proposal along with some others from different ministri
The government will procure 12,500 tonnes of sugar and 1.10 crore litres of soybean oil from foreign markets so that low-income groups in Bangladesh can buy the commodities at subsidised rates, according to Sayeed Mahbub Khan, additional secretary of the Cabinet Division.
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The government faces a challenge in reaching the target population in need of financial assistance amid the Covid pandemic in the absence of a comprehensive database of poor people.
To store basic information of all citizens, a Cabinet Division committee in November last year sent a proposal to the Prime Minister s Office for having a separate authority that will provide services relating to National Identity (NID) cards.
However, the proposal has been lying with the PMO for more than four months. We are yet to get any feedback from the Prime Minister s Office…, Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Sultan Ahmed, the chief of the committee, told The Daily Star recently.