DHAKA, Nov 20: Everyone, including the ministers and secretaries, will have to produce their identity cards from now on, according to the stringent new security system which has been designed to check subversive acts and ensure foolproof security at the secretariat, Bangladesh’s administrative hub.

The ministers, secretaries and other dignitaries have been asked to cooperate with the security personnel when they are stopped and checked at the entrances or anywhere inside the secretariat for security’s sake.

The directive was issued after a meeting on Monday with LGRD and cooperatives minister, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, in the chair.

State minister for home affairs, Lutfozzaman Babar, all the secretaries and inspector-general of police attended the special meeting, convened in the wake of the countrywide bombings and threats to bomb the secretariat.

A number of proposals on security came up at the meeting which instructed all the private and government bodies to be security-conscious and initiate their own security mechanisms.