Speakers at a discussion here yesterday unequivocally called for strengthening the local government institutions for overall development of the nation. In this context, they also viewed that substantial development of the ancient local government bodies is vital for institutionalization of democracy.
The organisational activities of the ruling Awami League remain almost stagnant although the party president, Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, has repeatedly called for strengthening the party at the grassroots level. At the AL central executive committee meeting on October 3, Hasina instructed the newly elected leaders to put in all their efforts to strengthen the party organisationally at the grassroots level to translate into reality its ‘charter for change’.
US Congressman Patrick Kennedy assured his total support for congressional measures to ease tariff and debt burden on Bangladesh through strengthening the lobbying in the American parliament. The assurance came when Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni met him in the Capitol Hill Wednesday, said a message received here yesterday.
The government today announced that the district councils would be made effective in the next three to four years for strengthening the upazila parishads to decentralise the administration. The announcement was made in the amended second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) titled “Steps towards Change: National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction II,”
Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said rate of bank interest and investment are the two main important aspects of the economy.
The TIB report on corruption for the period mid-2006 to mid-2007 came as no surprise to anyone, least of all to the common people of this Country who have to face these corruptions and be the unwilling victims of it, day in and day out, in order to get the slightest amount of services from the State.
