Why registration
Sir, During an exchange of views with the editors of national dailies and news agencies, PM Sheikh Hasina suggested that along with the sexworkers the name of their customers should also be registered. Then again she said, "We have constitutional obligation to discourage this profession and bring the brothel inmate^ to a decent and normal life from this cursed life.”
Though I appreciate the above observation of our PM. my question is, when the government has already taken up the hard task of banishing this immoral profession from our soil through rehabilitation of sex-workers then why again the provision for registration of the sex-workers and their customers?
M Zahidul Haque BAI. Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Dhaka-1207.
Really interesting
Sir, A recent seminar on corruption, organised received much media attention. I think a re-iteration of a few of the verbal offerings won’t be superfluous here. Former Finance Minister Saifur Rahman pointed out that corruption in bureaucracy is at least similarly widespread as in politics and as harmful to the nation. Food and Agricultural Minister Begum Matia Chawdhury said that with the establishment of democracy we can relatively advance forward by breaking the .chains of corruption.
The implied meaning of the word "relatively" caused a small verbal storm. Chief Justice Mostafa Kamal recommended an education system with a strong religious and moral bias to instill ethical values.
I think the most acute and gemlike observation that made this exchange of sublime airs a most interesting event, was presented by Mr Salahuddin Ahmed of BRAC. He said thgj this seminar was his 20-50 participation in seminars of similar agenda and he still finds a net result of zero from all these auspicious gatherings. He suggested that a seminar on these seminars would perhaps be somewhat more effective.
Interesting, indeed.
Shajiqur Rahman Lalmatia. Dhaka
Dangerous electric wires
i i nnA A ,{*Igh Power line of ;900, VosuPP>ying electricity from Chuala sub-station to a textile mill and other units SSJT? many residences of west Brahmondi, the most thriving residential quarter of Narsingdi municipal area. People living in these houses are under continuous tension. Should these wires torn away by storm or for any other reason. the result would be colossal damage to life and property.
The construction of multistoried building is impossible. A few years ago a labour was killed when his head came in
contact with the live wires. In the subsequent years several labours were injured In the same way when they were working. Children are always at the risk of their life when they play on the roof.
It is therefore requested that the government and the authorities concerned take immediate action to remove this dangerous wires.
Md Sharif Sarker on behalf of the residents of West Brahmondi Narsingdi
Twelve new universities
Sir. The Government has planned to establish 12 new universities in the country’s 12 greater (old) districts where there is no such institute. This is no doubt, a welcome project, but "all the 12 universities will be on Science and Technology" is not a good news at all.
Universities should- be ’universal’ in containing capacity and to be a full university, an educational institution of the highest rank should con-
tain the faculties like 1) Arts. 2) Social Science. 3) Commerce. 4) • Natural Sciences, 5) Biological Sciences. 6) Medical Sciences 7} Agriculture. 8) Law etc. But a Science and Technology University may at best contain 4-7 faculties i.e. it is subject to be a partial university.
Private universities do not have enough seats for the under graduates. Therefore a number of government and private colleges have opened Honours and Masters courses. But the standard of education in these instF tutions is far below than the
general universities.
Therefore to remove this biasness towards science education and for even distribution of general universities, the government is fervently requested to transform at least half of the proposed 12 new universities in ' general ones.
MAS Mollah Member BAAS Dhaka.
New political tactics
Sir. In appears that in our country, politics does not interest many now-a-days. let alone their sacred right to vote. When activities like hartals, gheraos. demonstration, slogans and high-pitched speeches run high for national cause, even the unlettered people are found laughing at these displayed confidently in the name of politics.
The 21st century is approaching. The craft the political parties are using in our country to capture the press and the people seem to have been almost outdated. Could they not come up with new techniques for the new century like face-to-face dialogue or discussions explaining more and more important issues such as transit, trade, sovereignty of the state or the Constitution which the common people do not understand clearly?
F M Abdur Rob
9. Kallyanpur. Dhaka-1207.