Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat
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| বাংলাদেশ সংসদ সচিবালয় | |
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| Formed | 1972 |
| Jurisdiction | Bangladesh |
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Parent department | Parliament of Bangladesh |
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| Website | www |
Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ সংসদ সচিবালয়, romanized: Bānlādeś Saṅsad Sôchibāloy) is a department of the Government of Bangladesh responsible for providing administrative and secretarial support to the Parliament and its legislative activities. It is situated within the Parliament of Bangladesh.[1]
Parliament Secretariat is responsible for organizing the oath taking ceremony of members of parliament.[2] It provides information on activities of the parliament to the press through the Public Relation Department.[3][4] It allocates development and travel budgets to members of parliament.[5][6]
History
[edit]Speaker Mohammad Abdul Hamid created an all-party parliamentary body to investigate corruption by staff of the Parliament Secretariat in March 2009.[7] He also had the Comptroller and Auditor General go through all expenditures of the Parliament Secretariat since 1972.[7]
In November 2011, the secretariat organized a discussion on population with United Nations Population Fund at the Parliamentary Member's Club.[8] Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue Rounaq Jahan described the secretariat in 2012 as understaffed and underfunded while being relatively weak.[9] She called for it to be strenghted and provided with a permanent staff.[9] It build fences around the parliament in 2015, which drew criticism for undermining the architecture of the parliament.[10]
The Parliament Secretariat Commission approved 3.28 billion BDT budget in May 2019 for members of parliament to spend.[5] It published Parliamentary Practice and Procedure by Khandaker Abdul Haque, an expert on parliamentary affairs.[11]
In 2020, the parliamentary session had to be stopped after around 100 employees of the Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat were infected with COVID-19 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.[12] In 2022, it returned 800 million BDT to the government treasury; the money was saved due to fewer working days during the pandemic.[13]
In 2021, the Secretariate disqualified Mohammad Shahid Islam as a member of parliament after he was convicted of a crime in Kuwait.[14]
List of secretaries
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "History and Building". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ "EC asks for arranging oath-taking ceremony tomorrow". The Daily Star. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ Hasan, Rashidul (22 October 2023). "Final JS session begins as politics heats up". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ "Parliament secretariat director Labannya Ahmed no more". The Daily Star. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- 1 2 "JS approves Tk 328cr budget for 2019-20 FY". The Daily Star. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ "Speaker to join IPU assembly with parliament not in place". The Daily Star. 10 April 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- 1 2 "All-party body to probe Sircar graft". The Daily Star. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ↑ "'Turn population into resources'". The Daily Star. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- 1 2 Jahan, Rounaq (3 June 2012). "The Parliament of Bangladesh: Challenges and way forward". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ Ali, Tawfique (31 October 2015). "Fencing at JS draws flak". The Daily Star. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ↑ Liton, Shakhawat (20 February 2012). "Govt not bound to enact law". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ "Budget session to be cut short as MPs, JS staff infected with Covid-19". The Daily Star. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ "Parliament Secretariat to return unused Tk 80cr to govt". The Daily Star. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ↑ Ahmed, Farhaan (13 July 2021). "Should Foreign Courts have the ability to effectively disqualify Bangladeshi MPs?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 November 2024.