An annual four-day meeting of Deputy DCs, or commissioners, will start working in the city tomorrow.

Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain announced at a news conference held at the Secretariat here today that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the four-day conference at Shapla Hall of her office at 10:30 am tomorrow.

The itinerary states that following the inaugural event, the premier and the DCs will have an open conversation at Karabi Hall at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

The conference's latter working sessions will start tomorrow in the Osmani Memorial Auditorium.

The conference will have a total of thirty sessions, including twenty-five working sessions, whereby 356 ideas submitted by the DCs will be deliberated.

With 22 proposals this year, the Road Transport and Highways Division has the most.

DCs will get the appropriate instructions from ministers and secretaries of various ministries and divisions as they participate in the debate.

Prioritizing concerns such as improving public services, lessening public inconveniences, building roads, highways, and bridges, boosting tourism, changing laws and regulations, and safeguarding the interests of the public have all been included in the plans.

Land management, strengthening local government institutions, disaster relief and management programs, job creation at the local level and poverty alleviation programs, social safety net programs, e-governance, and information and communication technology use, raising the bar for education and expanding it, family welfare and health, pollution prevention and conservation, physical infrastructure development, and inspection and coordination of development program implementation are among the top priorities.

There will be seven sessions on the first day of the conference, including five working sessions, an open discussion, and the inaugural session.

The DCs will visit Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at JS Bhaban on March 4, the second day. On that day, there will be nine sessions in all.

March 5th, the third day, will include seven sessions.

The DCs will visit Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan at Supreme Court Bhaban on March 6. On that day, there will be seven sessions in all.

212 short-, medium--, and long-term choices were made in total, according to the cabinet secretary, of which 130 have been executed and disposed of and 82 are still in the process of being implemented.

He said that 62% of implementations or disposals occur at this rate. 

Mahbub Hossain reported that last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued 25-point directives to the DCs, which included putting fallow land under cultivation, inspecting remote educational institutions to advance education, conserving electricity, building homes for the landless and homeless, reclaiming khas land, expanding sports, keeping an eye on markets for necessities, organizing yard meetings to prevent drug abuse, eve-teasing, child marriage, and other social issues, and taking the lead to create jobs and plant palm trees to lessen the effects of lightning strikes.

According to the premier's orders, the deputy commissioners used a variety of strategies to cultivate fallow areas owned by various government agencies and private citizens, he added.

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