PM directs DCs to increase food production, exercise austerity

UNB :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the deputy commissioners (DCs) to make all-out efforts to increase food production and exercise austerity in using electricity and public funds.
She also asked them avoid less-important projects to face the current situation as well as to be devoted to building a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041.
The premier issued a 25-point directive while opening the three-day conference of deputy commissioners (DCs) at Shapla Hall of her office here in the city.
“You’ll have to make an all-out effort to increase food production. No land should remain unutilized anywhere….There are uncultivated lands throughout Bangladesh,
if we can make these fit for cultivation, we will have no problem in food production and diversification,” she said in her first directive.
Hasina said she is now giving utmost importance to agricultural production so that Bangladesh would not be hit hard by the global food crisis.
In her second directive, she said, “You’ll have to exercise austerity in using electricity and energy as well as make the common people aware in this regard.”
The PM asked the DCs to ensure that the people receive services in time from the government offices and acquire satisfaction of the service-seekers.
Talking about the development projects, the PM directed the DCs to undertake the essential and fruitful projects considering local aspects and their possible outcomes as well as to supervise the quality of project works.
“In case of undertaking any project, you who are in our field administration should keep eyes on how it would be effective for the local area, how much people would be benefited from it, and ensure that there would be no wastage (of money)….. I don’t like taking a project everywhere indiscriminately. I want to implement the projects which are immediately needed,” she said.