Cabinet body okays purchase of 420 jeeps for UZ chairmen

The cabinet committee on public purchase yesterday approved procurement of 420 jeeps and ten speedboats for newly elected upazila chairmen who assumed office last week.
Of the 420 fleet 180 will be coming in the current fiscal year while the rest will come in the next financial year.
To this affect Tk 180 crore has been allocated in favour of Ministry of Local Government. Cabinet Division Secretary M Abdul Aiziz apprised newsmen the decision after the meeting held with with committee chairman and Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair.
Each of the jeep will cost Tk 32.50 lakh and will be bought from the just-revived state-owned Pragati Industries Ltd.
The meeting also approved another purchase proposal for the import of 180,000 tones of petroleum fuel from the Philippines’ state-owned Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC). The premium per barrel of oil was fixed at US$ 5.15.
The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will make the import of the whole consignment of the fuel oil from July to December period of the calendar year.
The Cabinet committee also gave go ahead to another procurement proposal of the Agriculture Ministry for importing 175,000 tones of MOP fertiliser from Belarus, Morocco and Tunisia. The state-owned Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) will import the fertiliser.
The meeting also approved a proposal of the Health Ministry for procurement of 120,000 boxes of DDT kits under a World Bank credit for family-planning programme.
Two proposals from the LGRD Ministry also received the nod of approval by the committee for appointment of consulting firms, one for design and maintenance and another for financial capacity building for Dhaka WASA.
Committee members- different ministers, secretaries and high officials of different ministries attended the meeting.

Courtesy of The New Nation