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Comprehensive plan for capacity building of BSTI

BSS, Dhaka
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI), a staterun watchdog agency for monitoring food items and manufacturing products, has embarked on an inclusive plan to build up its capacity by introducing laboratories equipped with modern calibrated tools.
A number of specialised laboratories would be set up in different parts of the country apart from infrastructural
development as the BSTI is now implementing four projects involvingaroundTk86crore.
Under a modernisation project, works on setting up two more world-standard laboratories - one in Sylhet and another in Barisal - are nearing completion and it will come to an end by next year, Director General of BSTI AK Fazlul Ahad told BSS correspondent in an exclusive interview.
He said the key purpose of these ongoing projects is to
strengthen the existing foods and goods certification system by harmonising the international-standard and expanding export volume in world market by increasing demand for local goods.
In view of flawless access of local goods to the global market, he said, the BSTI, has, of late, transformed the central Metrology Laboratory into a National Metrology Institute (NMI) comprising five smallscalelaboratories.
About strengthening of the on-going anti-adulteration drives, the BST1 director general said the drive has been strengthened after the present government s efforts on the mobile court ordinance that came into effect in July that empowered the mobile court magistrates for exercising power under 80 laws with a provision of instant penalty.
Asked whether the current anti-adulteration drive launched especially in the month of fasting would be continued, he said adding, the BSTI is conducting mobile courts led by only 12 magistrates who were engaged after requests to the Dhaka district administration and the Ministry ofEstablishment
He. however, said that he is hopeful about continuation of the drive in view of ensuring consumers rights.
The population of the metropolis is pn rise and at the same time the demand for food is also increasing, but it is unfortunate that the BSTI has no adequate manpower to cope with the situation, Fazlul Ahad said adding this is a major hurdle to oversee the monitoring activities.
The BSTI chief said the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is not performing its job of smashing adulterated foods being seized by BSTI mobile courts from unscrupulous businessmen. The DCC is designated and supposed to do so instead of the BSTI, he said.