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JS passes TCB Bill (Amendment)

Banglanews Team |
Update: 2015-02-11 10:46:00
JS passes TCB Bill (Amendment)

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: The ‘Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (Amendment) Bill, 2015’ was passed in the parliament on Wednesday with a view to bring dynamism in the overall activities of the organization.

The law will also ensure buffer stock for crisis moment and keep market price of all essentials stable.

The bill was passed unanimously through voice votes in the House when commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed placed the bill in the parliament with Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah in the chair in the evening.

Earlier, a proposal by Haji Selim MP and M Rustom Ali MP to send the bill to a committee for vetting was rejected.

On September 3, 2014, the bill was placed in the parliament to bring more amendments to the existing TCB Order, 1972 to instill further dynamism into the activities of TCB.

The bill was proposed bringing amendments to seven articles of the existing TCB Order, 1972.

BDST: 2145 HRS, FEB 11, 2015

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