The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2021 aiming to raise the financial jurisdiction of the judges of the lower court for disposal of civil cases.
The approval was given at the weekly cabinet meeting held at the Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. She joined the meeting virtually from Ganabhaban, reports BSS.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said the draft bill has proposed to increase financial jurisdictions for an assistant judge to Taka 1.5 million instead of the existing Taka 200,000.
The amendment has also proposed to increase the threshold to Taka 2.5 million in place of Taka 400,000 for a senior assistant judge in case of trying civil suits, he said.
In case of hearing the appeals of the civil suits, the draft bill has proposed to increase the financial jurisdiction to Taka 50 million instead of the existing Taka 500,000 for a district judge, said the cabinet secretary.
Besides, a provision was incorporated in the proposed law to transfer the appeals which are pending with the High Court against the decree or order made by joint district judges in the civil suits involving maximum Taka 50 million to the district judge court.
The cabinet also approved in principle a bill to establish Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Pirojpur district.
“The proposed university will be a prototype one of the existing science and technology universities. The President would be the chancellor of the university,” said Khandker Anwarul Islam.
Moreover, the cabinet ratified the Preferential Trade Agreement signed between Bangladesh and Bhutan on December 6 last to boost bilateral trade between the two countries.
The cabinet also cancelled its previous decision taken on July 29, 2013 over increasing the number of trawlers in the exclusive economic zone in the Bay of Bengal.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting through a videoconference from Ganabhaban on Monday –PID Photo