The Public-Private Stakeholders Committee on public procurement on Wednesday stressed involving the relevant stakeholders in improving the country's road network.
The committee members also underscored the need for community involvement in assessing the needs of public works to check wastage of hard earned public money.
The fifth meeting of the PPSC comprising representatives from both the public and private sectors was held at the NEC-II conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with planning minister AK Khondakar in the chair.
The planning minister said involvement of citizens in the procurement in many cases could be useful and ensure the quality of works.
The PPSC will make a recommendation to the government on this, he added.
At the meeting, Roads and Highways Department, Water Development Board and LGED made three presentations on their procurement activities. They also made suggestions on how and where citizens could be involved effectively.
Planning Division secretary Monzur Hossain, IME Division secreatry Habib Ullah and director general of Central Procurement Technical Unit Amulya Kumar Debnath also spoke on the occasion.
Source : New Age
