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To the Editor...
Govt high school at Gulshan needed
Sir. Importance of Gulshan. Banan I and Baridhara model residential towns need not be emphasised. There Is no gpv ernment high school tn such Important areas as even the Gulshan thana. As such the children are to go to different government high schools of the Dhaka city. A large number of students are attending different government schools far away from their residences at Kalachandpur. Naya Nagar. Solmaid. Batara. Nurerchala. Shahjadpur. Badda. Mohakhall For want of a government school, there can't be an SSC exam centre, as the authority told us. The people of the locality wish to have a government high school and an SSC exam centre at Gulshan thana, in line with the declared polity of the government.
In view of the above problems and demand I. on behalf of the local people, request the authority to nationalise
Gulshan Model High School which is centrally situated hav Ing all the faclIiUes for a government high school and for an SSC centre from the security point of view
Raja Ram Paid Chowdhury Gulsha/i Aue. DhrJca
NGOs activities:
Govt approval
Sir. "Government views the NGO activity as an useful con trfbutlon to the national devel opment and welcomes It in sectors where Government ac tiviUes are not adequate. Well co-ordinated NGO activities could supplement and complement Government's development programme quite meaningfully', says the "Guide to NGOs in Bangladesh. NGO Affairs Bureau". June 16. 1990.
The NGO Affairs Bureau has been established, with a new procedure, to help promote beneficial activities Although the guide is meant to facilitate both the NGOs and the Bureau In their venture to promote
their common objective of providing a better life to the people of Bangladesh, yet defective and over-lapping activities by the NGOs Affairs Bureau Itself have been posing serious problems and misunderstand Ing. suspicion and doubts about NGOs activities.
We would like to mention about the Government approval procedure, duplication of efforts and Its consequences:
NGOs are required to apply to the Director General. NGO Affairs Bureau. Government of Bangladesh tn FD From in nine copies for approval of their foreign donations project along with three copies of FD-2 for the release of fund. The Bureau is to communicate decision on the proposed project within 60 days receiving a properly filled tn project proposal but time-frame may often exceeds many days/months. even If properly filled. Also pre-coun selling, explanations, assis lance and advice by the NGOs Affairs Bureau in preparing and undertaking projects, but not
funding, in line with Govern men! policy and in filling up various forms are available, yet conditions set for subsequent fund release is cumbrous and time-taking.
Here project approval for a certain amount does not mean fund approval for which FD-2 form be filled in triplicate for receiving foreign assistance for the first year to implement an approved project. Fund release to be given by the Bureau for the first installment within seven days of receiving the ap Ellcation. But several NGOs ave been construing that approved project means also fund approval and NGOs consider this efforts as duplication of works.
Intense In their efforts. NGOs quickly go down to works in their field of activities after project approval.
Application for receiving subsequent Instalment of foreign assistance for an approved project are required to be made in FD-3 from in triplicate. Bureau is to give decision
within 14 days of receipt ol the application after ascertaining progress of the project. And ascertaining NGOs progress depends upon:
(1) Submitting audit report (completed) within two months after completion of the financial year by the auditor listed by NGO Affairs Bureau. (2) Publication of Annual Report of NGOs activities within three months of the comple tion of the financial year and submitting copies to NGOs Affairs Bureau. (3) Auditors issu ing a certificate In FD-4 form along with the audit report. Ascertaining the progress, with al) the above documents, the release of fund for second instalment is to be given
What happens when ah NGO, say completing first year by December, wants tn submit all these documents for release of fund, when it naturally gets three months (March thru next year) for getting fund re lease of second instalments?
Should the NGOs activities be stopped, only for release of
fund, during these three months already allowed by Bureau, when the said project has been approved for three years period?
The crux of NGOs fund receipt without Government permission has arisen against several NGOs on above working methods when the Bureau Itself has made It impossible for release of fund, especially subsequent fund, and beating drums against NGOs for using fund without Government permission for no faults of their own activities.
Will the Government put away such duplication efforts and over-lapping activities? Why not depend on audit report and why approval of the project with foreign fund amount should not be con stnied to have beep done so for that approved amount as well? Why not grant the matching amount for the NGOs that have px led fund for the poor to reach benefits for them?"
Vox Popull