Commerce Adviser SK Bashir Uddin has not yet received a copy of the task force report on re-strategising the economy, despite the chief adviser's directive last month to implement at least one of its recommendations.  

"I have not found any copy of the taskforce report yet," SK Bashir, a businessman turned adviser, who is trying to cool off red-hot commodity prices, said today.

The adviser was speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day conference titled "Recommendations by the Task Force on Re-Strategising the Economy," organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) at the BRAC Centre Inn in the capital.

Surprised by the comment of the adviser, KAS Murshid, chief of the taskforce, said: "It is interesting that you still haven't found any copy."

Murshid mentioned that every ministry has been instructed to implement at least one recommendation from the report that best fits their mandate, yet one adviser has not received the report.  

The task force, formed on September 10 last year, was assigned to develop strategies to boost the economy and mobilise resources for equitable and sustainable development.  

On January 30, the 12-member committee submitted its report to the interim government.

Education and Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud said on February 4 that the recommendations had been handed over to the chief adviser, with all advisers asked to select at least one recommendation for implementation during their tenure.  

Meanwhile, SK Bashir said today that every sector of the economy had been criminalised in previous years. 

"Unnecessary projects and money laundering have caused significant damage to the country's economy," he added.