| To administer the the Rural works Programme (RWP) nation-wide which was started in the early 1960s, the Programme Wing (WPW) was created in 1982 under the Local Government Division (LGD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Co-operatives (MLGRD&C). It was converted into the Government Revenue Budget in October, 1984 as Local Govt. Engineering Bureau. LGEB was upgraded as the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in August, 1992. |  |
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| LGED
is headed by the Chief Engineer who is supported by 2 Additional Chief
Engineers, 6 Superintending Engineers, 6 Executive Engineers, 6 Assistant
Engineers at the HQ, 6 Superintending Engineers at the regional level,
64 Executive Engineers at the districts and 460 Thana Engineers at the
thanas. The total number of engineers and other staff under permanent establishment
of LGED is 9548. LGED is now one of the prime engineering organizations
actively participating in the overall
development efforts of Bangladesh. Click here to see administrative structure graphically. |
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