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Bangladesh Secretariat. / 23.7288; 90.4086. The Bangladesh Secretariat, also known as Bangladesh Sachibalaya or Old Secretariat, is the administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh, and houses the majority of ministries and government agencies and bodies. [1] The secretariat can refer to the complex of ministries, or refer to the ...
Bangladesh is a unitary state [1] and the central government has the authority to govern over the entirety of the nation. The seat of the government is located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. [2] [3] [4] The executive government is led by the prime minister, who selects all the remaining ministers. The prime minister and the other most ...
Local Government Engineering Department; Rural Development and Co-operatives Division. Department of Cooperatives; Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) Rural Poverty Alleviation Foundation (PDBF) Small Farmer Development Foundation (SFDF) Bangladesh Cooperative Bank; Bangladesh dairy farmer co-operative Union Limited
Bangladesh is divided into 8 divisions (bibhag) and 64 districts (jela, zila, zela), although these have only a limited role in public policy.For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into upazilas (sub-districts), "municipalities" or town councils (pourashova), city corporations (i.e. metropolitan municipal corporations) and union councils (i.e. rural councils).
The Jatiya Sangsad ( Bengali: জাতীয় সংসদ, romanized : Jatiyô Sôngsôd, lit. 'National Parliament'), often simply referred to as Sangsad and also known as the House of the Nation, [1] is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 [1] seats, including 50 seats reserved ...
t. e. The Government agencies in Bangladesh are state controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Bangladesh. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to control agencies by policy decisions. Some of the work of the government is carried out ...
The People's Republic of Bangladesh has a growing number of diplomatic and consular missions around the world. As of 2022, it has over 82 missions around the world, with 59 being embassies or high commissions; 20 being consular missions; and two permanent missions to the United Nations in New York City and Geneva. [1]
Upazila. An upazila ( Bengali: উপজেলা, romanized : upajēlā, lit. 'sub-district' pronounced: ['upɘdʒeːlaː] ), formerly called thana, is an administrative division in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a borough of Western countries.