The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of the National Oceanographic Research Institute Act in principle to legalise the establishment at Ramu in Cox’s Bazar.
The institute being constructed under a project of science and technology requires a legal framework to run, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said after the cabinet meeting.
The proposal was placed and approved in the meeting yesterday, he said, adding that the project was undertaken during the last Awami League tenure.
The cabinet secretary said the construction work of the institute started, but the BNP-led four-party alliance government held up the project.
The present government resumed the construction, added the secretary.
He maintained that the institute would be headed by a director general and a governing body formed under the leadership of science and technology minister according to the proposed law.
At the meeting, a total of 11 ordinances issued during the military rule between 1975 and 1979 were termed unnecessary to enact a new law.
Most of the ordinances related to finance and supplementary budget bills were issued regarding the budgetary allocation of the then government, said the meeting.