Security measures were beefed up at the Bangladesh Secretariat as the country's administrative hub reopened on Sunday, following a fire in Building 7 on Thursday.
Official sources said all sorts of vehicles, except those carrying advisers, secretaries and chiefs of different departments, are being barred from entering the Secretariat.
Officers and employees with offices in the Secretariat were allowed entry by showing their permanent identity cards at the gate.
The offices at the Secretariat reopened after the weekend for the first time since the devastating overnight fire.
All officers, from additional secretaries to lower ranks, entered the Secretariat on foot, leaving their vehicles outside the premises.
The Home Ministry introduced separate booths on Abdul Gani Road for visitors with emergency needs.
Hassan Tarek, the on-duty police officer at Gate 1 of the Secretariat said all vehicles, except those of advisers, secretaries, heads of departments and officers investigating the fire incident, are completely prohibited from entering the Secretariat.
Meanwhile, Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam, at a media briefing on Sunday, said the Home Ministry will issue temporary passes starting Monday for journalists assigned to cover the Secretariat beat from their respective offices.
The government has already formed a special cell to receive applications from journalists for temporary passes and an office order in this regard was issued by the Home Ministry on Saturday.
The cell has been set up at the Crime Command and Control Centre of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at 15 Abdul Gani Road.
The fire, which engulfed the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth floors of Building 7 of the Secretariat, burned many important files, causing substantial damage to government offices.
