Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is an organ of Bangladesh government created for provision of transport infrastructures in rural areas and to provide technical support to the rural and the urban local government institutions (LGIs), planning and implementation of infrastructure development projects in the rural and urban areas to improve communication and transport network, job creation, and poverty reduction.
LGED took root in the early 1960s, when implementation of Works Programme (WP) started to develop physical infrastructure for poor people.
In the 1970s, it grew into a cell of the Local Government Division (LGD) under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives.
In 1982, it became an independent body named the Works Programme Wing per recommendations of the Enam Committee[a] to administer Works Programme nationwide, and was renamed as the Local Government Engineering Bureau (LGEB) per a decision of the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reforms (NICAR) in October 1984.
Upazila Engineers play key role for transport, social and institutional infrastructure development.