Five reform commissions on health, women affairs, mass media, labour and local government are going to ask for more time as they are set to miss the deadline for submitting their reports to the interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus today.
Formed on November 18 by separate gazette notifications, the five reform commissions were assigned to submit their reports within 90 days or February 16, 2025. Several members of the commissions informed 抖阴精品 on Saturday that they would seek a deadline extension up to mid-March.
They said that some of the commissions were yet to finalise their draft recommendations until Saturday.
Health sector reform commission chief Professor AK Azad Khan, said, 鈥榃e are planning to submit the commission report by mid-March.鈥� The commission was formed to recommend necessary reforms to make the country鈥檚 healthcare system people-oriented, accessible and universal.
The labour sector reform commission also would request the government to allow at least one month more for finish preparing the full report aiming at ensuring labour rights and welfare, said its chief Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmed.
鈥榃e will prepare the summary of our recommendations and submit it to the interim government by February 28,鈥� he said.
The local government reform commission was formed to gather recommendations on strengthening the effectiveness of local governance with its chief Professor Tofail Ahmed said on Saturday that the full report would take more time to finish.
He, however, added that the commission was working hard to prepare a summary to give it to interim government by February 21.
鈥楧iscussions with political parties have started. We think our recommendations on local government reforms will be crucial in the discussions,鈥� he said.聽聽聽
The interim government formed the women affairs reform commission to generate necessary recommendations regarding women鈥檚 participation in all spheres and their empowerment. Meanwhile, the mass media reform commission was formed to recommend necessary steps to make聽 mass media independent, strong and objective.
Mass media reform commission chief Kamal Ahmed and women affairs reform commission member Nirupa Dewan said that the commissions would not be able to complete their reports before the last week of February.
Following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led regime on August 5, the interim government announced full-fledged reform commissions for the judiciary, electoral system, police, public administration and the Anti-Corruption Commission on October 3 last year. A full-fledged constitution reform commission was announced on October 7.
All the commissions of the first round, having their deadlines extended, submitted their full reports on January 15. The reports were made public on February 8.