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5,500 corporation jobs on the line

Reaz Ahmad
The government will shed 5,500 jobs under the industries ministry.
Industries Minister MK Anwar told the Jatiya Sangsad last night that a decision on the retrenchment has already been made.
Later, Anwar told The Daily Star that the finance ministry has already allocated Tk 300 crore to say goodbye to the officials and employees of three corporations -the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation, Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation and Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation.
Anwar said the process of 'staff
rationalisation' to make the corporations profitable would complete within a month. He said the government was getting "full cooperation" from the staff whose jobs would be axed.
Speaking on two separate bills passed by the parliament for merger of two government offices -- the Patents and Designs and the Trademark -- GM Kader of the Jatiya Party said such steps would not help contain wastage of public money. Rather, establishment of good governance is of urgent need.
In response, Anwar revealed the decision of downsizing the three corporations and assured the House that the government was
putting in its best effort to improve governance.
During the Awami League tenure, the parliamentary standing committee on industries ministry had several meetings on shedding staff from different offices under the ministry.
The Jatiya Sangsad last night also witnessed the passage of two bills -- Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill, 2003 and the Patents and Designs (Amendment) Bill, 2003. It also rejected GM Kader's proposal for seeking public opinion on these two bills.
With the passage of the bills, a government decision taken back in 1989 to merge the two offices got the necessary legal coverage.
The parliament also heard a point of order raised by Krishak Sramik Janata League leader Abdul Kader Siddique on the government's stance on Iraq.
Siddique criticised the government as the parliament did not listen to the main opposition Awami League's plea for inclusion of deaths of Iraqi Muslims in the US-led war on Iraq in the obituary reference.
In response, Law Minister Moudud Ahmed and Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Delwar Hossain Saidee said there was no confusion over the government's firm position against the killing of Muslims in Iraq.
Deputy Speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui, who was chairing the session, observed that the opposition could move a fresh proposal to condole the deaths of Iraqi Muslims. But there was no scope to include any fresh condolence in the obituary reference taken on the inaugural sitting on Thursday.