The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry yesterday recommended that the government legislate against construction on arable land. It asked the land ministry to draft a law and place it before parliament. “Within 20 years, there would be no land left for agricultural use if the way arable land is decreasing continues. So we have made some recommendations to keep the remaining cultivable land intact," Col (retd) Oli Ahmed, chairman of the committee, told reporters after a two-hour meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. "We have asked the land ministry to draft a law prohibiting construction on arable land and place it before the House," he added.He, however, could not say whether the proposed law would be placed in the session beginning on June 4. The recommendations come at a time when experts say every year the country loses around 80 thousand hectares of land suitable for cultivation due to human settlements, rapid urbanisation, erosion of rivers, construction of new roads and broadening of the existing ones, and various other development activities. At yesterday's meeting, the parliamentary body also expressed dissatisfaction over performance of different ministries with regard to implementation of development projects. It asked the education ministry to leave the task of recruiting teachers to the discretion of the schools' managing bodies to cut the red tape in this regard. Oli, lone lawmaker from Liberal Democratic Party, said the committee also recommended that the education ministry take measures so that no-one with education below SSC level can become a member of the school managing committee. "We have also asked the ministry to ensure that all public educational institutions are built with an option to raise it by at least four storeys," Col (retd) Oli also said. About different ministries' performance, he said the trend of going slow during the caretaker government tenure is still there."We have asked them to quicken the pace in their activities especially in development projects."
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