Government Institutes

Bangladesh Social Science Research Council (BSSRC) has been at the apex of other organisations playing a catalytic role as well as acting as the national co-ordinating body for promotion and development of social science research in the country.

The Islamic Foundation Bangladesh was established on 28th March 1975 through an Ordinance with a vision to preaching and propagating the values and ideals of Islam, the only complete code of life acceptable to the Almighty Allah, in its right perspective as a religion of humanity, tolerance and universal brotherhood and imbuing the people of Bangladesh with the ideals of Islam. The Islamic Foundation Bangladesh is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The Director General is the Chief Executive of the Foundation.

The Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) was established in 1976 to impart in-service training, Research, Publication and Feature writing to working journalist of national and regional newspapers and media personnel. President Ziaur Rahman was the founder of this Institute. PIB organizes training courses workshop, seminar for the journalist. PIB Undertakes research projects on various aspects of media and mass communication and their impact on society. PIB publishes book, Manual, Handouts, and Features on different aspects of journalism.

A reform program (RlRA) with the financial assistance from the Government of the United Kingdom has been undertaken in order to build a modern efficient and time-befitting tax administration. The main objectives of this program are to introduce a common TIN for income tax and VAT for ensuring much needed co-ordination between these two departments, prevent revenue leakage by consolidating internal audit and inspection, achieve human resource development by increasing professional skills and adopt a coordinated tax education program for creating public awareness.