Rural Development and Co-operatives Division (Bengali: পল্লী উন্নয়ন ও সমবায় বিভাগ) is a Bangladesh government division responsible for rural development and regulation of agricultural cooperative organisations.
[1] Mohamad Rezaul Ahasan is the Secretary in charge of the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division.
The budget for the project was 11 billion taka with an aim to target 578 thousand farms and 2.9 million people.
[4] In 2014, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved the development of concentrated rural housing township called Palli Janapad.
[5][6] On 27 June 2019, State Minister Swapan Bhattacharjee announced in parliament that the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division would provided low cost loans at 4 percent interest to rural farmers who were growing non-major food grains.