PM to open new bar council building today

Staff Reporter :
Newly-constructed building of Bangladesh Bar Council in the capital will be inaugurated on Saturday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the establishment.

The 15-floor modern building was built at a cost of Tk 138 crore.

The building has adequate office space, meeting room, two conference rooms, record room, store room, waiting area, cafeteria, day-care centre, exhibition space, registration room, bank, accounts section, IT section, among other facilities.

Built under the supervision of Law and Justice Division and designed by Department of Architecture, the building also has five tribunal rooms, multipurpose hall and separate prayers room, according to a release issued by the Law Ministry.

More than hundred lawyers will be able to live in the building, with TV lounge, kitchen and dining hall.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is also scheduled to join as chief guest at lawyers’ grand rally organized by ‘Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi Parishad’ on Historic Suhrawardi Udyan on the day.

Law Minister Anisul Huq will preside over the rally.