The cabinet has approved the draft of the Battalion Ansar (amendment) Act 2015, keeping the provisions of forced retirement and halting promotion as a punishment.
In case of any kind of mutiny, there would be rules for punishment. In this regard the cabinet asked the Home ministry to follow the new law of the Border Guard Bangladesh.
The cabinet also asked for reducing the existing time-limit of making permanent the service of an embodied Ansar as a battalion Ansar from nine years to six years.
The draft act was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday, Cabinet Secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting.
The cabinet also approved a draft of the proposal titled “Fund for Social Development of the Project Area of Coal-based Power Plants and Operation Policy.”
The cabinet secretary said the Power Division had made the proposal for creating the fund with a tariff of three paisa consumption per unit of electricity, which will be collected from subscribers.
The cabinet also approved a draft policy for operation of the fund by committees to be constituted with local people, he added.
The cabinet secretary said the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Act 2015 was also approved by the cabinet. The new law proposes raising the capital of the BPC to Tk5 crore from Tk1 crore, and increasing the number of full-time directors to seven from five.
The cabinet also asked the BPC to create posts of professional accountants for development of the financial management of the organisation and rejected a proposal of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry for shifting the head office of Petrobangla to Dhaka from Chittagong.
The cabinet secretary added that the cabinet also approved in principle the drafts Civil Servant (Married with Foreign Nationals) Act 2015.
