Endowed Property
Cabinet okays draft law
The Cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of the Endowed Property Management Act-2012, a longstanding demand of the country's Hindu community, to prevent grabbing of such properties.
The law states that the handover of such properties would be brought under a legal framework while a central management board would be constituted to look after the properties.
The vice chairman of the Hindu Buddha Christian Welfare Trust will be the chairman of the board while the post of a joint secretary-ranked administrator will be created. The latter will also act as the board's member secretary.
The board will also be formed at district level where the deputy commissioner will be the chair, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told journalists after the weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat.
The cabinet also endorsed signing of the supplementary protocol on the construction of Boundary Reference Marker in Naf River, along the Bangladesh-Myanmar boundary. This will make border dispute resolution easier, he said.
It okayed the proposal of extending the existing Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Bangladesh and USA for another ten years till February 2023.
The cabinet adopted a felicitation motion on Bangladesh national cricket team's five-match ODI series win against West Indies and a condolence motion on Prof Khan Sarwar Murshid's death.
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