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Department of Jute

department · partial (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
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Role
Director General
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
1978
Legal basis
Jute Ordinance 1962 (Ordinance No. XV of 1962; consolidates and amends the law relating to trade in jute and jute manufactures, provides for regulation and promotion of internal and international trade, licensing of traders and jute press owners, collection of statistics, and levying of cess on jute); Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010 (enforcement role); Ministry of Textiles and Jute (Allocation of Business) Rules

Actively enforcing the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act through district mobile courts (Tk 45.8 lakh in fines in nine months of FY2025-26), providing official jute export and production statistics, and supporting the government's BJMC mill-privatisation drive; the department's raw jute export data underpins the conditional-export regime introduced by the Commerce Ministry circular of 8 September 2025, which made raw jute shipments subject to prior approval to protect domestic supply for 150+ operating mills.

Recent activity

Provenance & notes

The entity is officially called 'Directorate General of Jute' (পাট অধিদপ্তর) in Bangla government sources and on the National Web Portal; the slug and English label 'Department of Jute' follow common English-language press usage and the parent ministry's own English pages. Established 1978 when the Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Jute were merged (Wikipedia; motj.gov.bd); a Jute Board had existed since 1953 under central government. The current Director General's name was not retrievable from publicly available sources as of 2026-05-17; dgjute.gov.bd staff list is in Bangla only and the name could not be independently cross-verified with a second English-language source -- left null to avoid unverified data. The FY2025-26 budget figure (Tk 4.80 billion) is for the entire Ministry of Textiles and Jute, not the department alone; no disaggregated departmental figure was found. verification_status = 'partial' because (1) Director General name unverifiable from 2+ English sources, (2) department-specific budget line not publicly disaggregated, and (3) sanctioned staff count not publicly available. All four 90-day topic areas (BJMC mill privatisation, BJMC oversight, jute price support, raw jute export ban) are covered by verified events above.

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