Bangladesh, Feb. 14 -- The Department of Social Services is demonstrating significant interest in constructing buildings, despite being unable to adequately provide services to government shelters for vagrants due to a shortage of manpower. They are actively advocating for the approval of a project totaling 0.97 billion taka aimed at constructing new buildings for six shelters.

Social Services Department has resorted to ‘manipulation to initiate this project. They have divided the 0.97-billion-taka project into 81 parts, aiming to bypass the requirement for approval from the Cabinet Committee on Public Procurement and the Prime Ministers Office for procurement.

Public Works Department typically handles construction projects such a...