Bangladesh, March 9 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today directed authorities concerned to find ways to make the country's Zakat management system more effective and well organized.

The Premier issued the detective at a meeting on Zakat management held at the Cabinet Division in the Bangladesh Secretariat here, Prime Minister's Deputy Press Secretary Md Zahidul Islam Rony confirmed the matter.

Religious Affairs Minister Kazi Shah Mofazzal Houssain (Kaikobad), Secretary of the ministry Munshi Alauddin Al Azad and As-Sunnah Foundation Chairman Shaykh Ahmadullah attended the meeting.

Rony said that during an iftar programme held on March 7 in honour of Islamic scholars and orphans, the Prime Minister had said that a proper Zakat managem...