DC conference begins today

The much-awaited annual conference of the Deputy Commissioners begins today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to open it, said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam while briefing reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat after the Cabinet meeting.

The cabinet meeting was held at the Cabinet Room of the Jatiya Sangsad with the prime minister in the chair.

The DC conference has already been shortened to a three-day one from five-day, which will take place at Osmani Memorial Auditorium instead of the meeting room in the Cabinet division due to the fresh surge of Covid-19, said the Cabinet Secretary.

Amid the surge of new variant Omicron, only 15 ministers and secretaries of 15 ministries have been invited to the inauguration ceremony, he said.

Besides, the DCs have been asked to do the RT-PCR test along with his gunman, driver and companions before joining the conference, he said.

Anwarul Islam revealed that till now two divisional commissioners and five DCs became tested with Covid-19 positive.

They are divisional commissioners of Rajshahi and Barisal and DCs of Cox’s Bazar, Rajshahi, Patuakhali, Lakshmipur and Chuadanga.