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Digital twin
The digital twin of the state: every entity, mapped and linked.
The local layer: districts and upazilas across the country.
The Annual Development Programme by ministry, with execution rates.
Government-linked companies, their ownership, and board links.
State-owned enterprises by sector and finances, and their owners.
Economic zones and export processing zones, by location and status.
The largest development projects: cost, financier, and delivery.
The state
Jatiya Sangsad: members, committees, and the legislature.
How the layers fit together, from constitution to local body.
The statutes and rules that create and bound each institution.
Who answers to whom: the oversight lines across the state.
The dependency graph linking entities, budgets, and officials.
The apparatus the state runs on
A government is not one body but hundreds. This is the register the twin governs through: the ministries and divisions that hold executive power, the constitutional and regulatory organs meant to check it, and the permanent bureaucracy of departments and statutory bodies. Each entry carries its mandate, legal basis, and current head where one is on record.
Composition
Checks on power
Constitutional bodies stand outside the executive's line of command. Their leadership and independence are the clearest test of whether the checks on power are functioning.
A quasi-judicial constitutional body responsible for the recruitment of civil servants in the Bangladesh government
An independent constitutional body that enforces election laws in Bangladesh
The unicameral legislative body of Bangladesh, constitutionally designated as the House of the Nation
The chief legal adviser to the government of Bangladesh and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court
The supreme audit institution of Bangladesh, responsible for maintaining accounts of the republic and auditing all receipts and expenditure of the government, including...
Head of state of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
The highest court of law in Bangladesh, composed of the Appellate Division and the High Court Division
Statutory authorities
Statutory authorities that license, supervise, and discipline whole sectors of the economy.
Statutory council that accredits academic programs of public and private universities and degree-awarding institutions to assure quality of higher education
Regulation of nuclear energy use, radiation safety, and nuclear facility licensing in Bangladesh
Statutory board regulating qualifications and registration of Unani and Ayurvedic medical practitioners, recognition of teaching institutions, and conduct of examinations
Statutory body responsible for encouraging market competition, preventing anti-competitive practices, and protecting consumer interests
Regulatory agency responsible for the certification and censorship of films in Bangladesh
National central agency for receiving, analysing and disseminating Suspicious Transaction Reports, Cash Transaction Reports and other financial intelligence to combat...
Autonomous statutory regulatory agency responsible for ensuring food safety standards and regulation across Bangladesh
Statutory board regulating qualifications and registration of homoeopathic practitioners, recognition of homoeopathic teaching institutions, and conduct of examinations
Statutory regulator of the medical and dental professions: registration of doctors and dentists, recognition and accreditation of medical and dental colleges, and...
Statutory regulator of nursing and midwifery education and practice: registration and licensing of nurses and midwives, accreditation of nursing institutions, and...
Quasi-judicial institution that protects freedom of speech and regulates the press in Bangladesh
Independent regulator of financial reporting, accounting, auditing and audit firms
Insurance industry regulation, policyholder protection, and insurance market development and oversight
Licensing, regulation, and supervision of microcredit institutions operating in Bangladesh
Apex authority coordinating, regulating and certifying skills development and TVET across government and industry
Regulator that licenses and supervises Certifying Authorities and the public-key infrastructure (PKI) for digital/electronic signatures in Bangladesh
Statutory regulator of pharmacy education and the pharmacy profession: registration of pharmacists (A, B, C grades), recognition of pharmacy institutions, and curriculum...
The executive
Provenance
Bodies by the era they were established, from the colonial inheritance to the institutions of the 2024 transition.
Method and sources
Source: the BDPolicyLab government twin, 100state bodies compiled from the Rules of Business and allocation gazettes, each body's enabling act or constitutional article, and official websites. A current head is shown for the constitutional and regulatory organs where one is recorded in the appointment roster; where a post reads not recorded it was either vacant or not retrievable from an accessible source at verification, not assumed filled. Establishment years drive the era breakdown; bodies without a recorded year are grouped separately rather than imputed. For every body and its full source list, see the government twin.