Election Commission to attend DC conference

No presidential session will be held this time

The Election Commission, or EC, is set to attend a session at the Deputy Commissioner’s Conference ahead of the 13th parliamentary election.

Chief election commissioner’s aide Mohammad Ashraful Alam said, "The CEC, the election commissioners and the EC secretary will attend a programme on the evening of Feb 18, the last day of the DC conference, to be held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium."

According to EC officials, the commission usually sits with field-level officers before the election. This is the first time the Election Commission is participating in the DC conference.

More changes have been made at the three-day conference starting on Sunday. There will be no presidential session this time.

The deputy commissioners or DCs will arrive at the conference venue on Saturday, the day before the start of the conference, to complete registration and other preparations. Later in the afternoon, the Cabinet Division will brief them about the overall preparations.

This time there will be 34 working sessions at the DC conference.

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus will inaugurate the conference on Feb 16 at 10:30am at Shapla Hall. He is scheduled to attend an open discussion with DCs there.

The meeting of the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association with the chief advisor will be held in the evening.

On the second day, the DCs will meet the Supreme Court chief justice on the sidelines of the working sessions. In the evening, the DCs will attend the reception at the Supreme Court premises at the invitation of the chief justice.

Mohammad Khaled Rahim, additional secretary of the district and field administration wing of the Cabinet Division, says the agency received a total of 1,245 proposals from the divisional commissioners and DCs on the occasion of the conference.

Out of these, 353 proposals have been included in the schedule for discussion at the conference.

According to the progress report of the Cabinet Division, a total of 381 decisions, including 119 short-term, 192 mid-term and 70 long-term, were taken at last year's DC conference.

Around 64 percent of short-term, 40 percent of medium-term, and 36 percent of long-term decisions have been implemented so far.