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The commission was created in 2003 and is responsible for the setting of gas, petroleum oil and electricity prices in Bangladesh. As the regulator, it also arbitrates disputes in the energy industry. [2] Its approval is needed for any changes in the price of electricity, gas and petroleum oil. [3] The Energy Security Fund is under this agency. [4]
The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is a government agency operating under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. It was created as a public-sector organization to boost the country's power sector after the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state in 1972.
Bangladesh National Portal is a national portal of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under Access to Information programme [1] run by the Prime Minister's Office of Bangladesh. [2] The information portal aims to provide information about all national unions, upazilas, districts and divisions of the country. It was launched on 7 March 2015 as ...
Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory; Bangladesh Municipal Development Fund [1] Bangladesh Ordnance Factories; Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited; Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation; Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited; Bangladesh Shipping Corporation; Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation
The borders of Bangladesh were set by the Partition of India in 1947, when it became the eastern wing of Pakistan (East Pakistan), separated from the western wing by 1,600 km (1,000 miles). Despite their common religion, the ethnic and linguistic gulf between the two wings was compounded by an apathetic government based in West Pakistan.
The Pakistan Citizen's Portal launched its web-based services and helpline on 28 September 2020. [6] [7] In October 2020, manual complaint lodging facility was provided at the dashboards of government offices for illiterate and physically challenged people. [8]
The Shell Oil Company and Pakistan Petroleum discovered seven major gas fields in the 1960s. [10] After the Bangladesh Liberation War, the first government of Bangladesh led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with Dr. Kamal Hossain as Minister of Energy, enacted the Bangladesh Petroleum Act in 1974. [10]
The act was created by the Minister for Labour, Commerce and Industry Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the United Front government of East Pakistan. After the Independence of Bangladesh, it was made into BSCIC. In October 1973, BSCIC was split into Bangladesh Cottage Industries Corporation and Bangladesh Small Industries Corporation.