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TO THE EDITOR
Finance minister's observation
The finance minister has said, "You build costly houses but demand cheap food, that's not reasonable."
This is applicable for the people surrounding the minister, particularly who are rich and politically powerful. Actually, the demand for cheap food is the cry of the honest people, pensioners and poor. They do not build costly houses!
Mohan
Kalyanpur, Dhaka An appeal
In the wake of the present political upheaval in the country, I would appeal very earnestly to both the opposition and ruling alliance to ruminate and give a serious thought to resolve the present crisis, which is pushing the country to the point of no return.
I am not a political activist. I simply know that frequent and consecutive hartal calls will not do any good to the people or the country. Productivity and the flow of foreign investment will suffer. Economy of the country will be seriously affected.
If it is assumed, for the sake of argument, that the opposition succeeds in ousting the government, but what next? Is there any guarantee that with the change of regime every thing will be all right? Certainly the new opposition party will resort to the same trickery and create the same state of affairs for the ruling party. This process will continue.
Both the opposition and the government should shun politics of violence in the greater interest of the poor people of the country.
SL Ahmad
Malopara
BCS doctors
A great number of BCS doctors have been eagerly waiting for the authority's call to undertake government service foundation training (FT). According to the service rules, FT is required to get appointment as permanent staff along with passing the departmental examination. As far as we know, in other cadre services, the officers are called to the Public Administration Training Centre (PATC) by their respective authorities soon after joining government service. In health cadre, it is the DGHS (Directorate General of Health Service), which holds the onus of selecting the trainee doctors to send to PATC in phases. Beset with fund constraints, the DGHS could not keep pace with the onrush of trainees. As a result, a number of doctors are left in the pipeline even after passing the departmental examinations. It is also alleged that the DGHS is following neither seniority nor the merit criterion while sending the names of the trainees. That is a gross irregularity.
I would request the authorities concerned to look into the matter and bring back discipline to an important service. The doctors should not be made to suffer for no fault of theirs.
Dr. Md Zahid Hussain
Khulna
Amar Sonar Bangla
Since my childhood I am hearing the famous words "Golden Bengal" possibly coined by Bengal's Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. Since 1971, these words have adored the opening line of our national anthem. It was not only the dream but the basis of our independence struggle. The ultimate goal of all struggles and demands pointed towards this goal. We were made to understand that foreign powers were intentionally blocking our path to this goal. Unfortunately, for the last 33 years I have been hearing government after government promising to build Sonar Bangla in front of their fellow countrymen and doing exactly the reverse. This country has all the potential to become a self-sustaining country with a decent standard of living for all, provided those who are destined to govern us are determined to serve the nation.
If we top the corruption list, then how our dreams of a proud and healthy nation will materialise? I would request our leaders and those in charge of governance of this country to honestly pledge and act only for the first line of our national anthem. "Amar sonar Bangla ami tomae bhalobashi." Mohammed Alauddin
On e-mail
Ekushey thoughts
Twenty-first February culminated as a moment of victory that defines the source of glory, a sign of auspicious future of this very country, our beloved Bangladesh and is an occasion for remembering the martyrs of the great Language Movement -- Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam, Barkat and many more. It helped to shape the social and political events that followed so decisively that Ekushey has rightly been termed the turning point in the history of another movement for a separate cultural and linguistic identity which culminated in an independent Bangladesh.
On this very day, I was at the TSC, University of Dhaka, and we were holding a blood donation programme organised by Old Rajshahi Cadets Association (ORCA). As an ORCA member I had been there for the whole day filling out the forms of the donors and helping them donate blood. Normally, after the donation of blood, donors are offered a little refreshment. Suddenly, a man in tattered clothes came and snatched away the plate crying that he did not take his meal for the whole day.
As the day wore on, the life blood seemed to ebb away from me, and in that emptiness a heavy despair gathered momentum. I sat suspended in a state of complete nullity suffocated with the question inside me, do we have any success to be proud of as a nation? This hungry, street-living man is the symbol of many people like him deprived of normal life.
I took some moments from my volunteer work to have a short conversation with him. And imme-
diately we two were joined by two more persons who were also looking for food, money or whatever they could get from the crowd. I was asked how they were surviving. The narration was so pathetic that moved me a lot.
I think this is time to rethink with our unfaltering spirit. It is time to think with the deepest desire to go on into the shaping of the social, political and cultural way of our lives. Then it should be a decision, a promise, a next good step to do something fruitful for the deprived people. Only then the departed souls may rest in peace.
Md. Abdul Hamid
Asian University of Bangladesh