The committee formed to prepare the White Paper on the state of Bangladesh economy will look into the energy sector loan agreements signed during the Awami League regime, said Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya.
“If the agreements on foreign loans that were signed over the past years are available, we will evaluate those. We will definitely look into those. Especially, we have thought of looking into the agreements in the energy sector,” he told reporters on Tuesday, emerging from the second meeting of the committee held at the Planning Commission in the capital.
Dr Debapriya, Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Convener of the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh, said that at the meeting they have decided which issues specifically will get priority, UNB reports.
“We have identified those matters accordingly. Work has also been distributed among the members of the committee. At the same time, we have decided on the method for preparing this report,” he said.
Dr Debapriya also mentioned that the committee will look at the available data for formulating the report, adding that they will consider those data and information in a cynical manner.
“We will scrutinise the credibility of the available data as well as compare them with international standards,” he added.
“We have taken the decision to move forward with our work within the next two months,” he said.
Dr Debapriya said that they have planned the preliminary work and within the next three days they will get the initial outlines of their work.
The government has formed the committee for the preparation of a comprehensive White Paper on the state of Bangladesh economy led by Dr Debapriya.
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