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December 19, 2000
Dhaka-- (UNB) – The Cabinet yesterday approved amendment to the Farm Laborers’ Wages Scale Fixation, Appointment and Regulation Policy 1990 for streamlining jobs of agricultural workers. “As a result, the daily wages of skilled and unskilled agricultural farm workers would increase and job facilities and rules and regulations would be consolidated,” the cabinet said. Approval to the policy was given in a meeting of the Cabinet at PM office with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The Cabinet also recommended list of holidays for year 2001 and endorsed omissions from and commissions to provisions of the Land Port Authority Act 2000. It further approved a proposal for the government to endorse and abide by the ILO Convention 182 (1999) and the ILO Recommendation 190 (1999). The meeting elaborately discussed implementation of the Public Administration Reform Commission (PARC) recommendation for recovering outstanding bills for residential utilities. “For relieving the subscribers of harassment” the meeting entrusted Cabinet Secretary with the task of finding easy ways collecting information about such overdue bills, an official release said. It said the PARC had, so far, placed 30 recommendations to government out of which six have already been implemented fully while four partially. The recommendations implemented completely were several steps for ensuring accountability of government utility services, letter-reception system at the Secretariat, easing travel tax collection and pension payment to government civil service-holders for removing their harassment. Also implemented are the PARC recommendations for implementing existing rules and regulations, provision and orders, and revision of forms for annual report submission by different ministries and divisions to the cabinet division. Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State attended the meeting. Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister and Secretaries of different ministries were present. |