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Standing Committee on Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives

parliamentary_committee · partial (verified 2026-05-17)

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Role
Chairman
Annual budget
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Established
1973
Legal basis
Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 76(1) -- parliament shall appoint standing committees for each ministry; Rules of Procedure of Jatiya Sangsad (Rule 190), which mandates a standing committee for every ministry and prescribes a minimum of nine members elected by the House.

The committee has not yet been constituted for the 13th parliament; the first session (March 12 to April 22, 2026) closed without forming ministerial standing committees, consistent with Bangladesh's historical practice of forming ministry-specific committees in the second or third session. The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives faces three live tracks: (1) the Ishraque DSCC oath standoff -- HC-cleared as of May 22, with a contempt-of-court deadline of May 26 for the Local Government Division to administer the oath; (2) city corporation elections across 13 corps, with the minister committing to complete all local polls within one year of the BNP government taking office; (3) the $370 million World Bank Metro Dhaka Water Security and Resilience Program, approved February 10, engaging city corporations and WASA on sanitation and river restoration.

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Provenance & notes

Committee chairman and member list for the 13th Jatiya Sangsad could not be confirmed from accessible primary sources as of May 17, 2026 -- the first session (March 12 to April 22, 2026) closed without forming ministerial standing committees, which is consistent with Bangladesh's historical practice where such committees are typically constituted in the second or third session. current_head is null and verification_status is 'partial' pending formal constitution and chairman announcement. The Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives in the cabinet (a distinct role from the committee chairman) is Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir (BNP Secretary General, MP for Thakurgaon-1); State Minister is Mir Shahe Alam. The committee chairman, once appointed, will by convention be a BNP backbench MP, not the minister. established_year of 1973 reflects the constitutional origin of parliamentary standing committees under the 1972 Constitution; the ministry itself in its current form dates to December 2001 per Wikipedia. The 'established_year' field is set to 1973 to denote the committee type's constitutional origin (Article 76), not the ministry. FY2025-26 ministry budget figure was not publicly disaggregated in the sources reviewed; the BDT 46,553 crore figure is for FY2024-25 from Wikipedia. The Ishraque DSCC oath case is monitored here because the Local Government Division (under this ministry) is the direct administrative counterpart responsible for administering the mayoral oath; the High Court set a May 26 deadline, which falls after the verification date of this record.

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