Department of Jute

The Department of Jute is focused on stabilizing the raw jute market and managing the transition of state-owned mills to private management.

The entity is officially called 'Directorate General of Jute' (পাট অধিদপ্তর) in Bangla government sources and on the National Web Portal; the slug and English label 'Department of Jute' follow common English-language press usage and the parent ministry's own English pages. Established 1978 when the Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Jute were merged (Wikipedia; motj.gov.bd); a Jute Board had existed since 1953 under central government. The current Director General's name was not retrievable from publicly available sources as of 2026-05-17; dgjute.gov.bd staff list is in Bangla only and the name could not be independently cross-verified with a second English-language source -- left null to avoid unverified data. The FY2025-26 budget figure (Tk 4.80 billion) is for the entire Ministry of Textiles and Jute, not the department alone; no disaggregated departmental figure was found. verification_status = 'partial' because (1) Director General name unverifiable from 2+ English sources, (2) department-specific budget line not publicly disaggregated, and (3) sanctioned staff count not publicly available. All four 90-day topic areas (BJMC mill privatisation, BJMC oversight, jute price support, raw jute export ban) are covered by verified events above.