Bangladesh Secretariat
Administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Secretariat (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ সচিবালয়, romanized: Bangladesh Shochibaloy) is the administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh, and houses the majority of ministries and government agencies and bodies, located in Segunbagicha, Dhaka. The secretariat can refer to the complex of ministries, or refer to the Bangladesh Civil Service central administration. Its political heads are the ministers while the administrative heads are the Secretaries to the Government. The Secretariat complex was originally constructed as the Secretariat of East Pakistan.
History
The Daily Star reported on 15 July 2009 that the Bangladesh Secretariat was filled with lobbyists who were interfering with the duties of ministers and secretaries. Despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calling for an end to lobbying at the secretariat, the Bangladesh Secretariat received 1,200 visitors a day.
On 9 May 2015, the ICT Division started providing free WiFi at their Bangladesh Secretariat.
The Cabinet Division declared the Bangladesh Secretariat a smoke-free zone on 24 October 2017.
Mohammed Nasim, the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, got stuck in a lift at the Bangladesh Secretariat for 23 minutes on 10 October 2016. It was a new lift that had been installed only for his usage.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bangladesh Secretariat” is administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bangladesh, Secretariat and Administrative, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38251432. VIAF identifies the subject as 29169253631692700412. The Library of Congress control number is n2023243467. Authority coordinates are 23.434, 90.243. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2016.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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Three-step research path
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This entry incorporates text from “Bangladesh Secretariat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.