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To The Editor
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Telecom regulatory agency
Sir, The Bangladesh T&T is not going to be privatised. Then the name of the Board may be changed, so that it does not sound like a regulatory board'.
The new regulatory agency has not yet been announced. The power and telecom administrators have been going slow on reforms since 1991. The World Bank carried out a restructure survey a couple of years ago. but the policy decisions are slow and not very transparent.
Bureaucracy and the purse in the private sector influence political decisions supposed to be taken in public interest. When the major opposition party comes into power, a great deal of sensitivity is subdued in compromising stance.
The regime should talk less on politics and more on administration and reforms.
A Husnatn Dhaka
Faulty licence: Cause of death
Sir, In a civilised and disciplined country, road accidents generally occur due to technical faults. like brake failure, flat tyre etc. In our country, it is due to reckless driving of the inexperienced drivers, who appear to have somehow bribe out to get the driving licences. These are mainly the bus and truck drivers, who often get drunk or drugged while driving. Pitiable condition of highways, roads and sudden bursting of soil carrier (matt kata) trucks are also
the other causes of road accidents.
However, reckless driving is the prime cause of road accidents. The other dangerous aspect is — "how quick they can be to drop and fetch passengers from one place to another." Therefore, it is the authority concerned, we should blame for the deaths. In other words, life of many eminent citizens like, Rumana, Elyas Kanchan's wife, film producer Alamgir Kabir, Mrs Moni Sing and a teacher of Notredame College have been brutally snatched away by the faulty hands of drunken, unlettered and the worthless lot — "bus and truck drivers".
On 12th of February. 97. my wife, my slx.-year-old daughter and some close members of my family. Including a two-month-old baby escaped a sure fatality, when their microbus was hit from behind by a bus near the Jatrabaii Gas Station at 9 pm. The bus as usual forced its way to overtake and eventually hit the microbus which fell upside down. Thanks to Allah and to their better luck that they all survived without any injury. I suppose, we should all merge together a make an appeal to the authority concerned to consider the following:
1. Driving licence should not be given, until an applicant is fully qualified.
2. Bus and truck drivers with at least 4 to 5 years of experience should be allowed on highways.
3. A patrol police should be immediately put in service to manure reckless or speedy driving.
4. Defaulters should be heavily fined or punished.
5. A traffic constable should be posted the check to soil and oil carrier trucks.
Lets hope that the above measure are immediately taken into utmost consideration before more life is lost.
Khawja Viqar Moinuddtn Dhaka
Microcredit sununit and arms race
Sir, The Microcredit Summit was dedicated to devise ways and means to combat global poverty and make the poor self-sufficient. One of the most successful son of this soil Dr Mohammad Yunus has been specially mentioned as the founder of Grameen Bank, dedicated to eradicate poverty from Bangladesh. We do not challenge the sincerity of others, who attended the summit.
But there should be a summit in favour of small nations, who are LDCs. That should put an embargo on the arms race. If arms expenditure can be curtailed then the money could be used for poor nations' socioeconomic development. Poor people can benefit in any country. if provision is created for them in seif-development out of savings from arms expenditures.
So the big nations should stop arms sale as part of campaign to free the world out of poverty. And only then the summit will be genuinely successful in its anti-poverty campaigns.
Dr Syed Ala-Uddin Dhanmondi, Dhaka
BTV and deprived people
Sir. Please refer to my letter published in your esteemed daily dated June 20, 1996, captioned 'PDB, DESA. and Akbar The Great’ in which I tried to draw the attention of relevant authority to devise ways and means for rational distribution
of power and avoid load-shedding between 8 pm andiHO pm particularly on Sunday, as BTV has arranged to show a film on 'Akbar The Great'. The great Akbar with his human limitations is still alive in the golden pages of history and comes to us as a man in reality. Unlike Sindbad, Akbar is not a fiction. Among the political stars of the sub-continent, he shines as the most important luminaty.
My request to DESA through your letter column did not go in vain. Their arrangement for load-shedding did not intervene and stand in the way of witnessing such a hero who in the 16th century established the great Mughal Empire covering the vast stretches of land, from Baluchistan to Burma and Kashmir to Deccan.
By the way, I want to remind the forgotten chapter of history once again that not only did he establish the great Empire like that of Ashoka of Mourya dynasty and Phillips of Spain, he also set up an ideal for a sense of direction and put the empire on a socio-economic footing. Akbar devised new machinery for statecraft by bringing in secularism in politics.
It was during Akbar's reign that the Indian subcontinent prospered and flourished in arts and architecture, poetry and literature and with it. arose a new civilisation and culture.
The producer who visualised to highlight in the screen such a great man from the torn-up pages of the history of 16th century, and, secondly, the man behind the BTV. who pioneered the idea to relay on Bangladesh TV. are both praiseworthy
Now. what kind of felicitation should be extended to the gentleman who deprived people by stopping the film?
To our great surprise, we learnt through an announcement that such a film is going to be stopped due to non-supply of the first party as the severe cyclonic storm and tidal bore in Jaipur that damaged the prop
erties of film industry. Cyclonic storm, it may be reminded, that it was formed in Bay of Bengal and ultimately lashed Jaipur in Andhra Pradesh in October 1996. Four months have smoothly elapsed and no handout was required to be issued since the storm hit the Jaipur coastal belt in October.
We understand, a con-tract/agreement is generally made in its totality or in buck and not in a piecemeal way. And in that case, as soon as the payment was made and contract signed, all the episodes of the film ought to have be^n handed over to the second party, l.e. BTV.
One wonders how the natural calamity can destroy all the episodes of the film. Modern technology has innovated the technique of preservation of film through archives.
In the aforesaid context, now BTV may please arrange to display the film by negotiating with Archives in India to wipe out misunderstanding in tne minds of general public, if there be any.
Syed Salehuddin Mahmood 21 /B. Sheikh Saheb Bazar Azimpur. Dhaka
Thana HQ at Kashinathpur
Sir. Kashinathpur in Pabna is a reputed business centre Heavy dealing in jute and leather, two important forex earning exportable items, occurs here round the year Be sides, its famous cattle market (haat) adds revenue to the state exchequer regularly There are more or less good facilities of education from primary to de gree level, electricity, cold stor age, telephone exchange to make it a burgeoning habitat It is also known as a gateway to north Bengal
By and large it is a growing centre both commercially and industrially as well as reslden
tially. And thus it needs many more facilities besides the above. Most important of these is establishment of a Thana Headquarters. In fact, an Important place like Kashinathpur should have been made a Thana Headquarters much earlier. Thus the most required facilities to ensure smooth trading and production as well as the growing human habitat could have followed by now.
However, we know a proposal in this regard, was forwarded to the authorities, but we don't know why it is yet to be implemented. Therefore we request the authorities concerned to kindly look into the matter so that the process of establishing a Thana Headquarters at Kashinathpur gets started soon in the interest of both development of the area and government revenue earning.
Md Abul Kashem Mia Retd Head Teacher Gout Pry School. Kashinathpur Santhid. Pabna
Ghastly tragedy
Sir. The horrifying death of a teenage boy trapped in a cloth shop is a sheer negation of safety laws universally accepted as a standard law. as no person or persons could be confined in a place without emergency exit And in this case, it Is clear that the boy was locked Inside the shop with no emergency outlet. The emergency exit could have minimised the extent of tragedy and the life of the boy could have been saved.
The law enforcing authorities must enforce the emergency laws with much more severity.
The proper investigation Into the cause of death of the boy and adequate compensation to the family of the victim should be ensured by the proper authorities
Al Ha) S M Khalid Chowdhury Dhaka