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Privatisation cornerstone of democracy: PM
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia said Sunday that the government was building up necessary infrastructure to link country's economy with the global trend of free market economy, reports BSS.
"Our avowed policy is to establish discipline and accountability In all sectors. We are nourishing a development-oriented economic culture". Begum Zia said while inaugu rating a two-day national seminar on "Policy Options for Economic Breakthrough" at Sonargaon Hotel in the city .
She said the cornerstone of democracy was the flourishing of private entrepreneurship. The state Is now playing a complementary role, she said adding side by side, we are striving to enforce stringent discipline in financial sector.
Finance Minister M Sal fur Rahman attended the seminar as the special guest.
Jointly organised by Jattya Press Club and Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI). the inaugural function was also addressed by chamber President M Morshed Khan, Press Club President Mozammel Haq and General Secretary Shaukat Mahmood
The Prime Minister noted with satisfaction that her government had been able to mo bilize 24 per cent domestic resources in the Annual Development Programme within a period of less than a year which was commended both at home and abroad.
She referred to the increased aid flow by different donor countries and agencies and said this was a clear Indication of support of the International community to the ongoing democratic process and the programmes of the present government.
She said her government had identified three Immediate objectives which wereac celerated growth of national Income, poverty alleviation and creation of employment opportunities through human resources development and self-reliance. She said "our struggle now is directed against poverty."
Begum Khaleda Zia said that the government had taken a programme for rapid Industrialisation and had formulated a liberal industrial and investment policy. "We want to give particular emphasis on export oriented Industries. In this
highly competitive world there is no alternative to export for our survival." she said.
On the labour-management relations, the Prime Minister said government wanted to establish a proper linkage between wages and labour productivity. She said since 1969 our labour productivity had diminished by a staggering 30 percent whereas during the period two of the neighbouring countries had registered increases of 54 per cent and 163 per cent labour productivity respectively.
The Prime Minister said the government was relentlessly working for the development of the power and energy sector to meet the demand* of Industrialisation and modernization of agriculture.
"We are contemplating to formulate an appropriate and realistic energy policy keeping in mind the interest of the private sector," she said.
"We are evolving effective measures for reducing system loss and for combating load shedding," she added.
The Prime Minister said her government had accorded priority to the development of communication for ensuring balanced uplift of all regions "Construction of Jamuna Bridge Is our election com mitment," she added.
She stressed the need for national consensus for devel opment and said "in democ racy there may be differences of opinion. But we should be united on national Issue". "Government is nothing perennial" she said, adding "the country and the people are ever-lasting"
Recalling the glorious armed struggle for the country's Independence, the Prime Minister said ‘we did not fight for merely a separate land mass, or merely for a flag of our own. We. as a nation, wanted to lead a decent life and fashion our lives according to our free option," she said the prime objective was to achieve economic emanclpa tlon alongside political Inde pendence.
Begum Zia said the biggest challenge of today was to ac celerate the pace of national economic development. "Free and open-hearted threadbare discussions of various opinion groups and segments of the society are the sine qua non for successfully meeting this challenge.
Saifur Rahman stressed the need for improving both the market and slate saying "neither of the two are perfect In Bangladesh "
MCCI president Morshed Khan described the existing power sector as alarming and disgraceful and expressed the hope that the government would finalise a long-term energy policy in consultation with the trade and Industry
Minister, members of parliament, political leaders, diplomats. Editors of national dailies and agencies and economists attended the seminar.