Bangladesh Rural Development Board Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LIII of 1982)

THE BANGLADESH RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD ORDINANCE, 1982 (Ordinance No. Lill of 1982) An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of the Bangladesh Rural Development Board. 2. Definitions.- In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (f) "TCCA" means the Thana Central Cooperative Association registered under the Cooperative Societies Act, 1940 (Ben. Act XXI of 1940). 3. Establishment of the Board.-(!) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Ordinance, the Government shall, by notification in the official Gazette, establish a Board to be called the Bangladesh Rural Development Board for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance. 7. Functions of the Board.-(1) The functions of the Board shall be (a) to promote village-based primary co-operative societies and TCCAs with a view to enabling them to be autonomous, self-managed and 614 financially viable vehicles for increasing production, employment generation and rural development; (b) to encourage functional cooperatives for generating income and employment for the rural poor; (c) to promote intensive irrigated agriculture as a means to cooperative development and also for efficient utilization, through the cooperatives, of irrigation facilities based on ground and surface water; (d) to channel and ensure productive utilization of institutional credit through the village cooperatives and the TCCAs and simultaneously promote members accumulation of shares and savings; (e) to encourage financially viable TCCAs to diversify activities specially in the marketing of agricultural inputs ad produce as a service to their members. 8. Director-General, etc.-(1) There shall be appointed by the Government a Director-General who shall be the chief executive officer of the Board with responsibilities for carrying out the decisions and performing the executive functions of the Board. 615