Hon. Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal FCA MP graced as chief guest the closing ceremony of a training programme organized by the IME Division at its conference room on August 9, 2018.

A total of 23 officers of the Cabinet Division participated in the three-day training titled, “Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation”.

On the last day there were two sessions relating to public procurement. Director General of CPTU and Additional Secretary Md Faruque Hossain conducted a session on reforms, digitization and management aspects of public procurement.

Director (Coordination & Training) Shish Haider Chowdhury took another one on procedures of public procurement. Public procurement entails a major portion in project implementation and management. 

At the concluding ceremony, Hon. Planning Minister was present in the afternoon as the chief guest. Secretary, IME Division, Md Mofizul Islam, presided over the concluding session. The Secretary expressed his gratitude to the Minster for his first-ever presence at any event at the IME Division.

Directors General of various sectors of the IME Division and officers were present on the occasion.

The Planning Minister said, “Activities of IMED are associated with my activities. Project processing, procurement and other issues have taught here. I hope you would utilize the knowledge you (Cabinet Division officers) acquired from here in the last three days.”

He urged all to work with devotion and look at all activities very positively.

“We will reach our goal of 2041 together. We will work together,” he said. Among the 198 countries in the world, Bangladesh was 58^th economy 10 years back. Now we are 22^nd, the Minister mentioned expressing the hope that Bangladesh’s economy and growth would surpass Malaysia and Australia by 2030.

After the speech, the Minister distributed certificates to the participants of the three-day training.