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Prokrichi urges donors to press for reforms

By Staff Correspondent
Doctors, engineers, agriculturists and non-administrative BCS cadre members abstained from their duties ye4te?day to press home their demand for administrative reforms.
However, officials working fri the cyclone-affected areas in Cox's Bazar district remained out of the purview of the work stoppage programme called by the P'rokrlchi-BCS Central Action Council.
At a rally at the Engineering Institution auditorium at 11 am. Prokrichi leaders called upon the donor countries and agencies to take a strong position on the administrative re-
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“We hope the donors would make the future assistance to Bangladesh conditional on administrative reforms", said Dr M A Majed. Convenor of the Prokrichi—BCS Central Action Council, an umbrella organisation of some 70 thousand professionals of the country.
Chaired by Abul Kashem, the rally was addressed by the Council Secretary General M A Hena, Ibrahim Mia. Dr Gazi Abdul Huq. Jabed Iqbal. Ruhul Matin. Abu Yusuf. Ahsanul Huq. Dr Z A Matin Ai-Helal. Mesbahur Rahman "Tutul. Saleh Ahmed, and ATM Salahuddin Ahmad Chowdhury.
ANH Akhter Hossain. MAK Azad and Dr Mushtaq Hossain were also present. The Prokrichi leaders at the rally urged the government to Implement their 17-point charter of demands.
Otherwise, they would launch a greater movement, the leaders cautioned.
The present bureaucracy was the only impediment to development and an accountable democratic- government. Dr Majed told the rally, organised by the Dhaka City Unit of the Action"Council.
The people would never forgive the government If ft failed to bring bout the desired reform in the'administration, he warned.
M A Hena said democracy would be at a stake if the ’ Bureaucracy was nqt re-structured immediately.
Ruhul Matin pointed out that the government had "miserably failed" in honouring its promise to the professionals. "We are now back oh the streets only because of the unprecedented breach of words by the government," he said.
Jabed Iqbal called upon the country's professionals to join the work abstention on June 14. 15 and 16.
The 17 point charter of demands include separation of the Judiciary from the administration. removing service anomalies created by the Matin Committee, formulatiofi of the Rules of Precedence, and handing over the executive power of the ministries to the public representatives."