A meeting of the Council of Advisers was held today at the Chief Adviser's Office in Dhaka. Photo: PID

DHAKA, March 20, 2025 (BSS) - The Council of Advisers today approved the draft of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Act.

The Council approved the amended act at its meeting held at the Chief Adviser's Office here today.

It also approved amendment to the Public Procurement Ordinance to increase transparency and competition in public procurement process and to break syndicates, according Chief Adviser's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder.

The provision of rejecting tender proposals if the estimated value is less than 10 percent has been abolished in the amended ordinance. 

The previous matrix for evaluating works, due to which the same organization used to get works repeatedly, will be replaced with a new capacity matrix. This will make it possible to break the syndicate.

Currently, 65 percent of works of tenders are being done online. 

The government has decided to increase this to 100 percent.

 Those who got allotment of abandoned houses could not have mutation in their own name in the past.

 Amendments to the law have been brought to remove that complexity.

For the convenience of the public, the Eid holiday has been extended by one day on April 3.

At the same time, the government has decided to declare an optional general holiday on the occasion of ‘Chaitra Sangkranti’ for all communities, including Santal, Garo, Khasia and Jayanta, living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.