PM's 23-point Directive for the DCs

1. Remain alert so that people don't become victims of harassment and are not deprived of government services.

2. Work with elected public representatives to establish good governance at the grassroots.

3. Create new jobs by strengthening rural economy so that people don't relocate to towns. Take steps to make sure that the pressure of population on the towns does not increase.

4. Set a motto for the development of rural infrastructure and flourishing potential small and medium industries as well as eradicating poverty through generating employment.

5. Take development programmes to minimise the rich-poor gap so that the highest number of people can be benefited. Ensure a balanced distribution of resources in building a society without discrimination.

6. Carry out responsibilities more carefully and strictly for maintaining peace, discipline and stability in all aspects of life by eliminating militancy, terrorism and communalism.

7. Engage cross-section of people, including local elected public representatives, teachers of schools, colleges and madrasas, imams of mosques, senior citizens, business leaders, women organisers, members of Ansar-VDP and village police and NGO workers, in stamping out militancy and terrorism.

8. Take special measures for the welfare of the physically challenged and autistic people and disadvantaged communities.

9. Make the village courts effective for providing justice to people easily and reduce the backlog of cases pending with courts.

10. Give leadership for developing and flourishing ICT to reach the services at the people's doorsteps.

11. Take steps for increasing the rate of female education and bringing the dropouts back to the mainstream of education.

12. Be more active for increasing transparency and efficiency in land administration and management as well as protecting government land.

13. Take all necessary measures for smooth supply of fertilisers, seeds, electricity and fuel for boosting agriculture production and take initiatives for popularising the environment-friendly agriculture management.

14. Contain marketing of adulterated food with iron hands and create mass awareness about the unethical acts.

15. Ensure proper application of merit, efficiency and experience for successful implementation of the seventh five-year plan and SDGs.

16. Take right measures at the right time for reducing damage from natural disasters. Raise awareness about protecting the environment and ensure proper enforcement of laws and rules regarding it.

17. Take strict steps for maintaining peace in the industrial zones to keep transportation of goods and export-import uninterrupted. Eliminate muscle power, extortion, tender manipulation and terrorism.

18. Give consumer rights to an institutional shape and curb any efforts to create an artificial crisis in market with iron hands.

19. Implement the women development policy smoothly and ensure proper legal steps for stopping violence, torture and hostile attitude towards women and checking woman and child trafficking.

20. Ensure scope for education, sports, entertainment and creative cultural activities for physical and mental growth of the children and juveniles. Grow interest of children and juveniles in history, knowledge and science.

21. Stop drug peddling and trafficking and its abuse strictly.

22. Remain vigilant about protecting government land by increasing transparency and efficiency in land administration and management.

23. Preserve geo-natural beauty and biodiversity of the hill districts and give proper attention to the development of haor and baor regions. Extend all-out cooperation to flourish the tourism industry, small and medium size industries and traditional cottage industry.