Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman set a historic example of strengthening Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) and giving highest priority to build a disaster resilient nation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the private sector to work for increasing purchasing capacity of the people side by side with boosting productivity in mills and factories and work efficiency of the people.
In a major shift to strengthen the local administrative system, the government has decided to hold the election of all five tiers of the local government bodies on a political basis like other major democracies, switching from the centuries-old non-partisan local government system.
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has published a list of 41 biranganas recognizing them as freedom fighters for their contributions to the country's Liberation War.
The Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) has set a target to set up 200 schools, construct 6,000 classrooms, appoint 15,672 teachers in fiscal 2015-16 for expanding education. New schools will be set up at the villages which has no such institution.