City Desk :
The social welfare ministry has set up control rooms in each district and division along with a central one in the capital to supervise and monitor the social activities being carried out by the officials under the ministry in Puja mandaps across the country.
“A total of 84 thousand people of both the women and child ministry and social welfare ministry have been performing social responsibilities countrywide in Puja mandaps while the monitoring reports are being submitted to the control rooms,” said a press release, reports BSS.
Among the employees, 11,128 skilled and trained officials from 1,089 offices of the social welfare ministry have been performing their responsibilities sincerely.
Besides the ministry’s division and district level officials, 70 thousand voluntary organisations have been working spontaneously in the countrywide Puja mandaps.
From October 4, the officials and employees of social welfare officials have been performing social duties as volunteers in the Puja mandaps countrywide which will continue until October 13, the release added.
Each official is performing duties per day for eight hours as roster based duty assigned for the employees following ministry directives to ensure 24/7 duties in the puja mandap scrapping the holidays.
The officials and employees of National Foundation for Development of the Disabled Persons, Bangladesh National Social Welfare Council, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahiyan Trust, Physically Disabled Protection Trust, Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Protection Trust and Bangladesh Rehabilitation Council have also been performing social activities across the country.
