The home ministry directed seven divisional commissioners to increase intelligence vigilance in the violence-prone areas to prevent further attacks on minority people.
Following the January 5 election boycotted by the BNP-led 18-party alliance minority especially Hindu people came under attack at various places across the country.
The directive was given at a regular meeting with the divisional commissioners in the conference room of the home ministry with Senior Secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed in the chair yesterday.
The meeting observed that the deteriorating law and order is improving day by day.
Among others, Dhaka Divisional Commissioner Jillar Rahman, Khulna’s Abdul Jalil, Barisal’s Nurul Amin, Chittagong’s Mohammad Abdullah, Sylhet’s NM ZiaulAlam, Rangpur’sDelwar Bakth and Rajshahi’s Helal Uddin Ahmed were present.
“We have been instructed to increase intelligence vigilance in the areas inhibited by minority communities so that attacks on them can be prevented,” Barisal Divisional Commissioner Nurul Amin told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. “We have to improve the law and order situation”.
“The divisional commissioners were asked to remain alert to prevent further attack,” a senior official at the home ministry quoted the home ministry’s senior secretary as saying.
Talking to this correspondent Additional Secretary of the Home Ministry Kamal Uddin Ahmed said law enforcing agencies would be tough to maintain law and order.
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzel Hossain Chowdhury Mia (Birbikrom) held a meeting with divisional commissioners at the ministry yesterday.
Officials at the ministrysaid Mofazzel Hossain instructed the commissioners to intensify monitoring of the programmes including food for work, test relief and employment generation.
The divisional commissioners will take steps so that deputy commissioners and UNOs visit the projects in the field level on regular basis. They have also been asked to ensure transparency and accountability of the project.