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Divisional IMED offices to be set up soon: Mannan
DHAKA, May 5, 2019 (BSS) – Planning Minister MA Mannan today said that
the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) would be
further strengthened as its divisional level offices would be set up very
soon to widen its coverage.
“Our Prime Minister has signaled on various occasions that the IMED would
be further strengthened. We’ll set up divisional level IMED offices very
shortly. As long as I remain here at the Planning Ministry, I will try to
extend the IMED offices at the district level,” he said.
The Planning Minister was addressing at a workshop at the NEC Conference
Room on Project Management Information System (PMIS) in participation with
the designated focus person officials from various Ministries and Divisions
working on PMIS.
The workshop was chaired by Secretary in Charge of the IMED Abul Mansur
Md Faizullah.
Mentioning that he follows two basic things in his personal life which
are — timeliness and austerity, Mannan urged the officials concerned with
the project implementation to follow these two things.
He also directed them not to waste public fund adding, “You must be very
careful about public money, especially in case of development projects.”
The Planning Minister said that the message of the government at present
is ensuring development as well as to give better life to the common people.
He informed that a big amount of the national budget is allocated every
year on the Annual Development Programme to give better lives to the citizens
of the country.
Referring to his recent meetings with the Project Directors in Khulna,
Sylhet and Rangpur, Mannan said that he would soon visit the rest of the
divisions and sit with the concerned project directors and officials of the
executing agencies in a bid to yield better development outcomes.
The Planning Minister said that the IMED would make close monitoring and
evaluation over the works of the project directors. “It will help to work as
a team … we have a common interest to attain,” he added.
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