MRP for diplomats from next week likely
The process of issuing Machine Readable Passport (MRP) for Bangladesh diplomats serving at different missions abroad will start by next week, with the home ministry awaiting allocation of a space at the foreign ministry to set up equipment for the purpose.
The passport authority started issuing MRP from the first week of May this year to meet the deadline set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). However, Bangladesh diplomats working at 34 missions abroad are yet to be issued a single MRP for lack of necessary facilities in the foreign ministry.
Official sources said a meeting on reviewing annual development project (ADP) of home ministry elaborately discussed MRP issue yesterday.
The meeting, with Home Minister Sahara Khatun in the chair, has decided to request the foreign ministry to allocate a room to set up necessary equipment for issuing MRP for the Bangladesh diplomats abroad.
The meeting also reviewed the progress of 34 ADP projects under the home ministry in the first quarter of current fiscal (2010-11).
The home minister directed the departments concerned to issue work orders against every project immediately. The ministry is implementing 34 ADP projects at a cost of Tk 328 crore in the current fiscal year.
The meeting was told that 27 percent of the allocated money under the projects has already been released.
Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder and heads of various departments under the ministry attended the monthly ADP progress review meeting.
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