The expert taskforce for strengthening the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has submitted its report to the Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud.
The taskforce members, accompanied by its Chairman Hossain Zillur Rahman, handed the report to the adviser at Ministry of Planning on Monday.
Rahman, executive chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) with members Hossain Abdul Wazed, former director general of BBS; Fahmida Khatun, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD); Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, chairman of Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID); Syed Shahadat Hossain, professor at Institute of Statistical Research and Training; Mohammad Mainul Islam, professor of Population Sciences; Atanu Rabbani, professor of economics of University of Dhaka and Mohammad Yunus, research director at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) were present at the event.
Planning Division’s Senior Secretary Iqbal Abdullah Harun, Statistics and Informatics Division’s secretary Aleya Akhter and BBS’s director general Mohammad Mizanur Rahman were also present on the occasion.
