The four-day Deputy Commissioners Conference 2026 is scheduled to begin today in the capital Dhaka, aiming to strengthen governance, improve public service delivery and address administrative challenges at the field level in the country.
The proposals mainly focus on improving healthcare, reducing disaster risks, developing infrastructure, including roads and bridges, promoting tourism and reforming laws and regulations to ensure better service delivery to the people.
DCs have submitted highest 44 proposals regarding the health sector, including the establishment of institutional frameworks for mental health at district and upazila levels, the reconstruction or repair of union sub-health centres, and ensuring adequate manpower and medicine supplies.
Prime minister Tarique Rahman is expected to inaugurate the conference at 10:30am today at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.
On the occasion of conference, the Cabinet Division has received 1,729 proposals from eight divisional commissioners and DCs of 64 districts. Out of these, 498 proposals have been included in the working paper.
This is the first DC conference after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance formed the government on February 17 following a landslide victory in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections.
The Cabinet Division on Saturday organised a press briefing at the division where cabinet secretary Nasimul Gani and additional secretary Md Humayun Kabir briefed journalists regarding the conference.
The conference will feature 34 sessions, including 30 working sessions, with the participation of ministers, state ministers, advisers, secretaries and heads of various government departments and agencies.
DCs’ proposals also include the construction of scientific treatment plants for medical and sewage from hospitals and clinics, the creation of midwifery posts at union health and family welfare centres and 10-bed mother and child welfare centres, and the appointment of adequate doctors and staff at district prison hospitals.
The establishment of an economic zone in Gazipur to relocate industrial factories to a designated area, and the setting up of an international airport in Noakhali and establishing integrated laboratories for food testing at the district level have also been proposed.
For the education sector, proposals include the recruitment of assistant teachers in ICT, Hindu religion and library science in government secondary schools, making education completely free for underprivileged students with disabilities and formulating policies to regulate Qawmi madrassahs.
The other proposals include establishing government primary schools at all tea gardens in the Sylhet division and nationalising registered private primary schools, introducing inclusive curricula and evaluation systems for all children and waiving time limits for filing appeals in civil courts and land survey tribunals.
Administrative and legal reform proposals include appointing government pleaders through competitive examinations, compiling all land-related laws into a single volume and amending the Land Crime Prevention and Redress Act, 2023.
Several infrastructure and development proposals have also been placed, including ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply in hilly regions, creating online databases for local government projects and establishing environmental-friendly waste management and water treatment facilities across municipalities and unions.
Proposals have also been made to set up youth and fact-checking centres at the district level, expand digital financial transactions to increase revenue collection and give low-interest loans to local entrepreneurs and farmers.
Climate-related proposals include the formation of climate resilience funds at district and upazila levels and adopting environmental-friendly alternatives to brick kilns in hilly areas.
The other notable proposals include establishing fish sanctuaries in haor regions, setting up accreditation laboratories to test export-quality products, providing incentives for domestic bicycle industries and establishing salt processing plants in Cox’s Bazar.
Transport and infrastructure proposals include the construction of an expressway from Lalabazar to Sylhet Osmani International Airport, upgrading the Dhaka–Mymensingh highway to eight lanes and decentralising BRTC operations to the district level.
Tourism development plans, establishment of disability support centres at every upazila, indoor stadiums in every district and the coordination of government fund releases by April 15 have also been proposed.
Additional secretary Humayun Kabir said that 400 decisions were made at the previous DC conference in 2025. Of the decisions, about 44 per cent has been implemented so far.
The short-term decisions recorded a 61.74 per cent implementation rate, while the medium-term and long-term decisions saw 35.75 per cent and 16.67 per cent implementation respectively, he added.
In 2025, during the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a three-day DC conference was held in February 16-18.
