Secretariat entrance pass suspended for a year

The Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended all sorts of passes, required to get into the Secretariat, for a year.

The action has been taken in wake of the second wave of coronavirus, a home ministry official said on Thursday.

Earlier, on December 17, the Public Security Division under the home ministry sent a letter, signed by its Deputy Secretary Md Firoz Uddin Khalifa, to the secretary of the Cabinet Division, requesting the latter to give necessary directives to the officials concerned of the respective ministries for not issuing the daily visitors' passes and the one-year temporary entrance passes.

Four of the points mentioned in the letter are: suspending the entry of visitors till further notice, suspending temporary entry passes till further notice, discouraging visitors from entering the Secretariat, and managing a parking space on the underground of the Baitul Mukarram mosque since there is no enough space at the Secretariat.