National Economic Council

NEC is the apex political body for Bangladesh's development planning, chaired by the PM; its executive arm ECNEC (Finance Minister as chair, PM as alternate) handles individual project approvals above Tk 50 million. The Planning Division provides the secretariat; meetings are held at the NEC conference room, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. entity_type is set to 'parliamentary_committee' per schema constraint; NEC is constitutionally a cabinet-level inter-ministerial council, not a parliamentary committee in the legislature sense. The '9th Five Year Plan' label used by the user prompt refers to the BNP government's five-year strategic framework under preparation (July 2026-June 2030 period); the Tarique government rebranded it from the Hasina-era 9th FYP as a 'strategic plan' rather than a formal five-year plan. No primary source confirms that this framework was a formal agenda item at the 18 May 2026 NEC meeting alongside the ADP; the two processes are concurrent but distinct as of the verification date. annual_budget_bdt is null: no separate operating budget for the NEC secretariat is publicly disaggregated from the Planning Division's budget line. staff_count is null: Planning Commission staff are counted under the Planning Division, not disaggregated to NEC secretariat. Activity evidence hold: removed 3 exact generated refresh event(s) on read. Generated scores, positions, activity actions and verification stamps are unavailable. Retained events and unmatched action text require source review; original raw records are unchanged.