Administration and Government

What is administration?
• Administration refers to the management of organizations. In politics, administration means the
management or organization in or of government. In broad concept, administration is the process of
organizing the activities of government for the development of the country and its people.

What is Government?
• Government is a group of people with the authority to govern a country or a state. It consists of
legislature, executive and judiciary. Prime minister is the head of government in parliamentary
government system. In Bangladesh, president is the head of the state and prime minister is the head of the
government.
Forms of Government in Bangladesh

• Nature: The government of Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy. The popular party with the
highest members in parliament form the government with the leader becoming the prime minister
of the chancellor. President appoints the prime minister who belongs to the supreme decision-
making committee. The cabinet is makes the supreme decision and the prime minister is the head
of the cabinet.

• Three Organs/Branches of government:

 The executive branch (48-64)
 The legislative branch (65-93)
 The judiciary branch (94-117)
Administrative Structure

• Administrative structure in Bangladesh

Ministry

Wing
Division
Branch

Section
District

Upazilla
Organizational Structural of Ministry and Secretariat

Secretariat Ministry

Secretary
Minister Political
Additional Structure
Secretary administra State Minister
tive
Joint Secretary Structure Deputy
minister
Deputy
Secretary

Senior
Assistant
Secretary
Assistant
Secretary
 Local Government
What is Local Government?
• Local government is the decentralization and de-concentration of central
government. It is the freedom of locality to make decision or planning for its own
area. It is the government that controls and makes decisions for a local area such as a
town, city, or county.
• Structure:
Zila Parishad Chairman (DC) Construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges,
building hospitals, and dispensaries , schools and
educational institutions, health facilities and sanitations,
tube wells for drinking water, rest houses and
coordination of activities of the union parishad within the
district.
Upazila Parishad UNO (a chairman, a
vice chairman and a
woman vice
chairman)
Union Parishad Chairman ( a
chairman, 9 members
Constitutional description

• Article 59 and 60:

1. Local government will be formed with the representative elected by the local
people.
2. The functions of local government will be-
a. To govern the local administration
b. To control the public discipline
c. To prepare economic plan and actualization of development
program for local need.
3. The local government can impose tax, form budget and preserve the account
for local need.
Local government in urban and rural area

Ministry of Local
Government ,Rural
Development &
Cooperatives

Local govt division

Rural local govt Urban local govt

District
Parishad(61) City Corporation 9
Upazila Pourshavas 398
Parishad482
Union parishad
4498
Local self-government