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Dhaka day by day

Tadbir Culture

By ASM Nurnnabi
Tadbir is a versatile word in Bangla. In its innocuous form, it means effort for achieving success. But in the context of our socio-economic ramifications it has ac quired connotations such as lobbying with built in quid pro quo. palm greasing or .euphemisms for bribe or graft. It is open to question whether the phenomenon has become part of our national culture.
, In (act. there is hardly any sphere Mi life where the •phenomenon {does not operate tip lofty strides.
• According to ^psychologists, it ;has roots in economic factors arising from insufficiency of wherewithal of its operators to get necessities of life or pure and simple cupidity. The fundamental principal on which the phenomenon operates, is. as already indicated, quid pro quo in eash or kind. In ,
. the Dhaka city, the government secretariat pffers a convenient field for witnessing its operations for a variety of objectives.
; Since antipathy towards normal duties has also developed into a sort of culture with the office functionaries, tadbir-mon-gering gets added impetus. The movement of a file, however Important of urgent it may be. suffers from inertia from the stages through which it has to pass. The concerned functionary holds up the file in the tope that a tadbir player will soon appear to pursue the file. When an understanding is reached with the player, the file resumes Its movement to the next higher stage where the same deal may be repeated. The play may continue till the file is finally disposed of and the tadbir party gains its objective.
The tadbir-mongers fdrm a distinct class by themselves. Since the secretariat, which is a protected area, is the heart of the administration. no ordinary person can get easy access to the offices. He then needs the help of a person capable of doing him the favour, at a price, of enquiring about the progress of the file concerning his case. Here a professional tadbir monger comes forward to help. There are also amateur tadbir mongers in most offices by and large.
always on the look-out for new clients so that they can exercise their skill in this respect
It is said that most of the visitors that throng the visitors' room In the secretariat are professional tadbir mongers or persons seeking to make tadbirs on their own in some office or another within the secre tariat. There is a steady demand for the services of professional, tad-Dir-mongers on ■ account of the fact that most ordinary people are not acquainted with the mechanism of work in the offices in the secretariat. For such people, the help of a professional is necessary and the latter often takes resort to trickery and deceit to establish credibility with his victims.
With the passage of time, the dress and modus operand! of this professional class have changed. It is said that this class previously used to wear pujama and kurta, carrying a small leather bag and chewing betel leaves. The tadbir monger at present wears safari or lounge suits with expensive cigarette case or cellular phone in hand. They , as a class, are more more dashing and enterprising with claims of political influence behind them. They manage, to get easy access to the high ups in the administration's hierarchy and conduct their business in a flamboyant style.
An interesting aspect of the life of this class is that they form the bulk of the customers of the hotels and restaurants situated across the secretariat premises. A couple of years ago., there was only a handful of such establishments in that area. Now their number has largely increased.
It is estimated that in the large crowd of visitors in the secretariat, ninety per cent of them are on their missions of tadbir. Their objectives cover a wide spectrum ranging from managing suitable .transfer, posting, promotion of their clients to more profound subjects like international tender, project approval, etc.
The tadbir culture has come to stay in our life with its tentacles spreading to all spheres of activities. j