“You’ll (concerned officials) have to accomplish your tasks speedily in due time, you can’t leave your works for tomorrow if those could be done today…..since you’re receiving salaries and allowances (from the taxpayers’ money), you will have to discharge your duties properly,” he said.
The planning minister said this while addressing a consultation workshop for ADP sector-reclassification, held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city.
Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Yuho Hayakawa, Planning Commission members Md Zakir Hossain Akanda, Md Mamun-Al-Rashid, Mosammat Nasima Begum and Ramendra Nath Biswas spoke as special guests at the workshop, chaired by Planning Division member Mohammad Jainul Bari.
Chief of the programming division of the planning commission Khandker Ahsan Hossain gave the welcome address while joint chief and project director of Strengthening Public Investment Management System Project Muhammad Anwar Uddin gave the vote of thanks.
Joint chief of the programming division of the planning commission Md Sayduzzaman made a presentation on ADP Sector Re-classification.
The planning minister said all would have to work as per the rules and laws through exercising their creativity. “We may not agree on some rules or traditions, but we’ve to follow those which our predecessors had left before us,” he added.
He said stagnant administration is not an administration, rather it should be proactive, vibrant and creative as well as having farsighted point of views.
Mannan said the goal of the country’s bureaucracy is to further strengthen the independence as well as ensure all necessary arrangements to fulfill the basic needs of people.
“Unless these basic needs are fulfilled, we won’t be able to move forward,” he said, adding that the government including the ministry of planning has been working tirelessly to fulfill these needs.
Noting that all the ministries and divisions are equal to the government while there is no super ministry or division, Mannan said the ministry of planning has been playing a supportive role to this end.
But, he said, there is one ‘super minister’ in the country, who is the prime minister herself under whose leadership, all are working to further move ahead the country.
The planning minister said no matter developed countries like Japan, Germany, and the USA extend their hands of cooperation to Bangladesh, but the ultimate tasks would have to be done by the country itself.
Turning to the long standing relationship with Japan, he said Japan is not only a development partner, but also a time-tested friend as the country has been with Bangladesh for the last 50 years.
The consultation aims to reach a consensus on the proposed `new ADP Sector Structure’ to align with FYP and MTBF processes, which can finally be implemented through integrating with the newly established ADP Database Management System in the programming division while having linkage with other similar `systems’ within the government, especially with the iBAS++ of the Finance Division.