Vehicle procurement at govt offices stops for six months

The procurement of all kinds of new vehicles at all government offices will be kept stopped in the current year in a bid to check public expenditure amid coronavirus pandemic.

In this regard, the Ministry of Finance issued an order signed by its Joint Secretary M Mahfuzul Alam Khan on Thursday.

The order reads the procurement of all kinds of new and replacement vehicles would remain stop until December 31 under the operating and development expenditure of all kinds of government, semi government, autonomous and other institutions to face the COVID-19 situation and also to maintain austerity in public expenditure.

The order will come into immediate effect, it added.