Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of "Private Medical and Dental College Bill, 2020" in principle to bring the all private medical institutions, including dental institutes, under one law instead of two separate guidelines.

The approval came from the weekly cabinet meeting held virtually with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

The PM joined the meeting through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban, while other cabinet members remained connected from the Secretariat, according to a report on UNB.

"At present, private medical colleges and private dental colleges are run under two guidelines.... Now it's not possible to run the institutes properly by only guidelines. A law is needed to ...