The ministry of public administration has asked for raising the house-building loan ceiling for government officials to Tk 25 lakh from 1.2 lakh.
It also asked for raising entertainment expense per head at official meetings to Tk 25 from 12.
According to a decision taken at a monthly coordination meeting chaired by joint secretary Md Maksudul Hasan Khan at the secretariat last week the ministry favoured the raise in the backdrop of recent years' price escalation.
Hasan told New Age Saturday, 'Accordingly we sent the proposed to the finance ministry for the raise in keeping with the price situation.'
He said that the entertainment ceiling was last revised in 2007 and the house building loan ceiling against salary was fixed in 1988.
He said that now a government official is entitled to draw a maximum house building loan of Tk 1,20,000.
The ministry also recommended for providing vehicles and other logistics support to district administrations for speedy and expeditious functioning at the field level, said officials.
The ministry deputy secretaries Md Samshul Kibria Chowdhury, Ali Ahmed, Amitabh Sarker , Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman and Mahmuda Khatun attended the meeting held on June 13.
An official told the meeting that the deputy commissioners' offices across the country were already provided with 86 jeeps and 10 microbuses and other logistics to speed up the work at the field level.
The meeting called for speedy disposal of audit disputes at the offices of the divisional commissioners and the deputy commissioners across the country through tripartite meetings, said an official.
Source: New Age
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