'91pc cabinet decisions met'
The cabinet yesterday expressed satisfaction over the implementation rate of its decisions, numerically 91 percent, taken in the Awami League-led grand alliance government's 39-month tenure.
The last BNP-Jamaat coalition government implemented 65 percent of their decisions over this period, says a report placed at the weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the cabinet took 987 decisions in 145 weekly meetings, of which, 897 were implemented while 90 were being implemented.
A total 168 laws were passed in the parliament while 32 bills were being processed. The cabinet formulated 32 policies and signed 82 Memorandum of Understandings in this period, he added.
The BNP-Jamaat coalition government had held 142 cabinet meetings where 343 out of 523 decisions were implemented.
The cabinet also endorsed the proposal to amend the mode of operation of “Border Haat” (market) set up in a village of Kurigram district, bordering India.
Currently, only locally produced goods are allowed to be sold at the “Border Haat” and an individual can sell or purchase goods worth a maximum US$ 50.
The amendment allows goods produced in Bangladesh and India to be sold there and raises the individual's transaction total to US$ 100.
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