Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed the cabinet members and high-ups of different ministries and divisions to prioritise projects as soon as possible.
“The projects have to be selected in terms of priority at the very outset as those must be completed within the tenure of the government which was the election pledges of the ruling party,” the premier said in the cabinet meeting.
After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told the media about the directives of the premier.
The cabinet division placed at the cabinet meeting the achievements, work progress and implementation of the cabinet decisions under the previous government.
The cabinet secretary said the premier expressed her satisfaction over the progress of implementation under the previous government.
Sheikh Hasina also ordered the high officials to publish the progress reports of separate ministries and divisions, he added.
According to the report, the previous Awami League-led alliance government took 1,508 decisions during its tenure at its 228 cabinet meetings.
Of those, a total of 1,427 decisions had been implemented.
Earlier, the BNP and Jamaat-led government had taken 745 decisions from October 10, 2001 to October 3, 2006 holding 208 cabinet meetings.
A total of 611 (82%) decisions of the government were implemented.
The secretary said the cabinet of previous AL-led government approved 271 draft laws for passage in the parliament.
He said eight acts which were sent to the parliament for passage were still pending.
It was mandatory to get further approval for the acts from the new cabinet as those were sent to pass in the ninth parliament, Musharraf Hossain said, adding that those would be placed before the cabinet shortly.
He added that at least 20 amendment proposals and new acts were pending at the ministries and divisions after getting approval of the cabinet.
The previous cabinet also approved 49 policies and strategies and 118 memorandum of understandings (MoU) and agreements.