Setting up permanent power plants

            This vital matter was very rightly taken up in a front-page news report published in a local English-language daily on Wednesday.It is a cause for worry that no prompt positive action is being taken to expedite the important matter of issuing a letter of intent and no step is being taken by the authorities to sign the agreement for setting up four already government approved power plant.
            As stated in the report,Summit Group and GE Energy & Associates have been selected by the cabinet committee to set up three power plants for generating 1350 megawatts in Bhola.Why are these still being delayed and no steps taken to get this nationally important matter progress speedily?
            The signing of the agreements and issue of work-order has been stalled for the last six months.The files on this subject are lying somewhere inside the bottomless government bureaucracy.Meanwhile,people suffer every day with short supply of the much needed electric power in both urban and rural areas.What happened to the government's pre-election commitment that rapid action on power capacity expansion will be taken?
            Surely the suffering public deserve an answer from the elected government for this prolonged delay in signing the contract for the work to start,Is it not possible to have the contract signed within January 2011?Eill the authorities kindly clarify this important public matter? Or, is it not us to ask why? 

Justice for women still far away

   Women have been victims of inequality in all aspects of aspects of their lives in all ages.In the last century, women made made advances in the socioeconomic field amidst innumerable hindrances, but the cruelty towards women has not decreased.
    It is astonishing that women fall victims in a state which claims that there is the highest possibility for the full development of the freedom of women.Needless to say that in order to secure justice,state laws shall have to be friendly towards women so it is easy for them to access justice to a greater extent.
     Women litigants in Bangladesh are deprived of justice due to weaknesses in the legal framework.The personal laws promulgated during the British colonial regime are in force till now in our country , In many of those laws , women have been discriminated.
     In spite of the abolition of self immolation of Hindu wife in her dead husband's pyre, child-marriage,and other forms of oppression, the right of the women in the state-level could not be established in full in our social system. Victims of dowry , killing ,abduction, torture for the realisation of dowry, acid throwing etc become head lines in newspapers.The laws in the state level failed to establish the right women and to assure justice to the litigant women.Simultaneously , with the degradation of law and order at the state level,oppression of women is advancing and women lag behind in getting justice.
      On the face of the demand of the women's organisations to remove discrimination in providing justice, the government promulgated the Family Court Ordinance on June 17, 1985.It was prosumed that the Family Court ordinance of 1985 would play an epoch-making role in protecting the rights of women.However, after 25 years , it is observed that success of this law is so scanty, there is nothing the deprived village women are getting which is worth mentioning.
      It is time for the government to take steps for revising the law, The applied problems of the family courts,for which the women of Bangladesh remain in crisis, are as follows

A Great initiative & India Evertwhere

             A lot of people spent a lot of money to see an Indian film actor,Shahrukh Khan , totalling a tidy lot of cash. How much of it was paid to the extremely rich actor, we don't know . However, the sad fact is that while we spend money to see someone in three dimensions from a distance, we do not collectively donate money to help out the needy or enable a poor family to buy a rickshaw for income generation or put a roof over their head.
             Wednesday's newspaper , however,provided very useful news about a group that has started giving out interest-free micro - credit loan to needy enterprising people to enable them to improve their lot.  This is an excellent idea and I deeply appreciate the initiative and their magnanimity to develop such an idea.This is an excellent example and we need many more such people , so that they can develop themselves.This endeavour deserves widespread recognition,appreciation and publicity so that many such groups can be developed, and more families helped out of poverty.It is our moral obligation and religious duty to help the needy in whatever way possible. We should learn more about this interest-free -micro-credit idea that has just been launched. More information on the matter from our dailies will.More information on the matter from our dailies will be very welcome!
              Indian printers were recently ordered to print textbooks for the school-going children of Bangladesh.The policymakers are making Bangladesh too dependent on India.From the kitchen market to the bookstore,everything comes from there -eggs,onions,pulse, textbooks, you name it.What sort of independence is this when we are dependent on another country for each and everything? It is a shame.
               

stop hartal-based politics

         Political stability is closely related to a country's economic development.Our country saw some positive signs of economic development in recent time.But,there are also hortals and other economy destroying political programmes. In front of this hope , aspiration and possibility, the devastating,hartal-based politics can't be accepted any more.
          In this competitive global market, countries such as Turkey and Japan are now showing interest in investing and buying goods from Bangladesh,instead of China.Japan wants to buy various kinds of goods from Bangladesh rather than from China.These are all positive signs for our economy , which can be spoiled by political instability and hartal.The ruling and the opposition party have to realise it for sake of our economic development.
         The people and the business community do not want the politics of hartal.The government do not want the politics of hartal.The government has to take the responsibility of making the political situation stable.Besides,it should take urgent steps to prevent abduction,toll collection, tender manipulation, infrastructure problem, and gas and power crisis without making any delay.This opportunity of economoc development might not remain open for too ling. The government and the opposition party should play a significant role in creating an investment-friendly atmosphere in Bangladesh.

Job for every familly & Digital Bangladesh ruling party

       A report titled 'BCS qualifiers fall sick at fast - unto-death for jobs' which is very hardness of any mind.BCS qualifiers have to fast unto death for jobs whereas the ruling government was committed to ensuring at least one job for every family.Still now, in some development project people have not got back their jobs although most of them have already been in the revenue set up. Recruitment has been a crying need for a long time in government high school, district education offices,teachers training colleges, other colleges and some other offices.
        The students of the Engineering University of Chittagong have not had access to internet for a long time.I know it from a national daily.They are in need of internet facilities as it helps them to acquire global knowledge and learn their subjects better.Not very long ago,I found that a video conference was held from a remote area of Bangladesh apparently as a proof that Bangladesh was on the road to becoming digital.Recently , the prime minister , Sheikh Hasina , said in the parliament that the previous Awami League government had been able to increase the literacy rate by 20 percent but the rate was reduced by four percent during the rule of the BNP- led government.The dropout rate of primary terminal exam was 8 percent last year but this year the rate has been increased a lot which is a great failure of the Awami League-led government.Therefore,the government would be well -advised not to speak ill of others and work for the welfare of the country.

The Yunus Controversy

     I was shocked with an item, published recently in News, where an organisation dared suggesting the arrest of Muhammad Yunus, the  sole Nobel laureate from our country.
     Yunus winning the Nobel Prize spread the name for our country across the world. It is astonishing that Omar should suggest his arrest , where the finance minister himself said the so-called grant could have been transferred with the donor's consent.
      Such suggestions create nothing but chaos and anarchy while contributing nothing to alleviate the suferings of the people. Only jealousy can explain such propositions.If I were in your place, I should have ignored it and would not have published it all. 
      It is strongly recommended that responsible journalism should not forget to highlight the other side of the coin while criticising Yunus and microcredit.

Amendment to politics

Many will agree with Lutfor Rahman that good governance requires purification of our politics and out politicians(New Age,November 24.But as long as our political parties avoid internal reforms, depend on personality cults,crush dissent, operate a command structure and promote divisiveness, our constitution will remain a mockery of what it was intended to be.
     The spirit of our constitution is diametrically opposed to the politics practised in our unfortunate country .The people are wise but they can only vote for those who are put on the ballot.It is the political parties which decide whose name goes on the ballot , not the people, We are held hostage by our two.

Again a spate of nasty polities

  One thing about Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia that people from all social in Bangladesh praise profusely is her strong personality, especially her stubbornness not to compromise, at least in her political statements, with anything that could jeopardise the countey's sovereignty.
   People in general had feared that as usual the BNP , the present opposition party, this time too would vitiate the public life by calling 'hartal' on any excuse as frequently as the Awami League and the BNP both did when they were in the opposition. But the BNP leadership, after Awami League won the last election by a huge margin, did not realy find much of excusable issues that could drive people to respond to a call of 'Hartal'.Plus , Khalada Zia had earned a bed name of an incapable mother, at least by the stories-real or concocted-people gossiped and the news media reported about, in shepherding her sons properly across the corridor of power when she was the prime minister.