The government has directed the Cabinet Division to take steps to turn Mymensingh district into a new divisional headquarter.
The decision was made at a regular cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.
Cabinet Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan briefed reporters after the meeting at the secretariat.
The cabinet division will form an inter-ministerial committee for taking further measures to this end.
“The committee will submit a report to the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reforms [Nicar] who will then make the final decision,” the cabinet secretary said.
The cabinet yesterday also discussed whether another division could be made out of the Faridpur district, one of the biggest in the country.
The PM also gave instructions for a feasibility study on splitting Chittagong to make a separate division out of either Noakhali or Comilla, Bhuiyan told reporters.
The cabinet also approved on principle the draft of the “Bangladesh Tea Bill, 2015” aimed at developing the tea industry.
The proposed bill has provisions for minimum six months and maximum two years’ jail for violating law.
The “Bangladesh Tea workers Welfare Fund Bill 2015” was also finalised.
The cabinet yesterday apprised the comparative socioeconomic advancement and macroeconomic statuses between the periods 2009-2014 and 2001-2006.
A report submitted by the Finance Devision said there was macroeconomic stability in the last five years because of steady growth and marked improvement in the key indicators.
The cabinet members expressed condolences at the death of Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.