Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase approved a total eight procurement proposals including import of petroleum fuels and fertilizer.
Law Minister Anisul Haque presided over the meeting in absence of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.
Cabinet Committee approved the purchase of 80,000 metric tons of urea fertilizer at a cost of Taka 174.84 crore. Of the total, 25,000 metric tons of urea fertilizer will be procured from Saudi Arabia, 25,000 metric tons from Qatar and 30,000 metric tons from Karnafuli Fertilizer Company Limited (KAFCO).
The committee gave its nod to a proposal of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) under the Energy and Mineral Resources Division to import different types bulk refined petroleum worth of 3,583.50 crore taka for January-June period.
The petroleum oils include diesel, jet-A-1, furnace oil, octane and marine. But detail of the quantity of these fuel were not disclosed to reporters during the briefing on the outcome of the meeting.
Three separate proposals of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) under the Power Division received nod of the committee.
Of these, conductors, ACSR and bare worth of 69.69 crore taka will be procured for Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna and Barisal divisions from Meghna Star Cable company while conductor, insulated, 600V of worth Taka 46.11 crore will be procured from Rangpur Metal Industry.
Some 11kV and 33kV underground cables worth of 20.60 crore taka will be procured from Poly Cable Industries.
The committee approved a proposal of the National Curriculam and Textbook Board (NCTB) under the Ministry of Education to procure 4,65,535 copies of books for the Ibtedayee and Dakhil level (Bangla and English version) students at a cost of 51.05 lakh taka.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair, with Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud in the chair, approved in principle three proposals.
As per a proposal of Food Ministry, some 300,000 household silos will be procured and set up in different areas in the country for the under-privileged, poor, non-advanced small tribes and people living in the disaster-prone areas as part of the food security related programmes.
The Education Ministry’s proposal to apply direct procurement method to procure 1,000 metric tons of paper for building buffer stock of books of free of cost for secondary level (Bangla Version) of 2001 education session received approval of the committee.
The committee also approved in principle a proposal of the Rural Development and Cooperatives Division to select developer for building of multi-storyed buildings in three sites of total 7 sites on cooperative-basis for rural peoples’ development.
