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Transparency in NGO affairs
NGOs have been working in diversified fields. They have certainly had their successes in many fields. They have penetrated in many areas where conventional institutions could not reach or did not take the trouble to reach. NGOs like every other institution focus sufficient light on their success and keep the failures in their back. That is the other side of the coin. Transparency means taking both sides of the coin into account.
Every NGO claims to have acted successfully in "Poverty Reduction". But no actual figure has been brought in our front. How many persons, how many families have been able to cross the poverty line at the behest of the NGOs should be made available.
NGOs get funds from abroad and borrow at 4% rate from PKSF. But they lend at a very higher rate. NCBs give loans to farmers at 8% . Still the farmers usually fail to repay the loan. But lending rates of NGOs are much higher. How they repay loans of NGOs punctually is a question that remains to be satisfactorily answered.
A layman like me fails to understand how a poor man will cross poverty line borrowing money at such a high rate.
The government of a country must have control over each and every affair within its territorial jurisdiction. Nawab Siraj struggled hard to establish control over his territory. But he could not. East India Company was a road block to that attempt.
Quantity of heat in "Sand" should
not exceed quantity of heat in the "Sun". Allegations that have surfaced recently warrant deep thinking over the matter. We feel that transparency in the affairs of NGOs should be ensured immediately. Some sort of government control over them should be established.
Tapader Md. Khalilur Rahman Kazipara, Mirpur, Dhaka
OIC defeat
Thank you Ankara, thank you Dr. Eklemuddin. We, the Bengalees, are grateful to both of you. Your being elected to the highest OIC position for the next few years has saved our prestige and spared us from embarrassment. Still we feel ashamed of the nomination of SQ Chowdhury, despite immense objection from within the country.
The government should stop committing such mistakes as the lessons of the OIC defeat are clear you cannot get away with anything and everything.
Kakush
MBA, IBA, DU
Election?
There is no doubt that there was massive rigging in Dhaka-10 by election. Is this an example of BNP's democracy and nationalism? It is surprising that the BNP wanted army deployment in the October, 2001 general election, but now they have refused to deploy armyin only 103 polling centres!
The fly in the ointment is far too visible!
Nayeem Islam
Uttara, Dhaka
Post-MFA scenario
Abrupt job loss led more than 50 garments workers to commit suicide in the first five months of this year in Gazipur district. A good number of workers were axed as the purchase orders from the international market are declining.
The female workers are becoming prostitutes and eventually committing suicide, failing to live such a horrible life. Even those, who are still employed, are struggling to meet both ends with the meagre salary offered and facing lots of problems on the social front. The factory owners are more concerned about playing down the number of suicide cases with the help of police.
The top brass of the BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufactur-
ers and Exporters Association) is seeing a win-win situation in the postMFA era, only on the basis of some statistics. The government seems unruffled by the imminent disaster to its highest contributor to forex.
In the budget the government has allocated a special fund for job-cuts in general. A special fund exclusively for the garment sector should be allocated and effectively applied to face the looming disaster in social and economic fronts. The complacency on the part of the government, the BGMEA and other concerned quarters may lead to fatal consequences for the nation.
Joy
Dhaka
Erratic power supply The advent of every summer is like a nightmare to us. The demand for
electricity is increasing very fast. The energy requirements will increase further in future. According to a BPDB source, the demand in Bangladesh increases by 10% every year. From the same source it is learnt that in 2002-2003 the peak demand was 3600 mw. Only 20% people of our country get the facility to use electricity. Most of them use only 2 or 3 lights, 1 fan etc. Power generation in private sector is patronised by the government. The BPDB can forecast the future demand using the statistical method . Day by day, new power stations are being set up . Then why load shedding? The BPDB must have the capacity greater than the peak-hour demand.
The BPDB possesses 3420mw of generation capacity all over Bangladesh. Ashuganj(724), Ghorashal(950 ), Raozan(420 ) are
the major suppliers to the national grid. Besides that, Independent Power Plants (IPP) generate 1260mw of electricity . Most of the privately owned industries have their own power plants which are dependant on the supply of gas.So a total of BPDB
(3420mw)+IPP(1260mw)=4680mw of electricity can be available at the peak hour of this hot summer, if all the plants are maintained and kept in good working condition. The situation turns grim when some of the plants trip. The lives of people become miserable as they wait for the power supply to be restored.
Eakub Ahmed
Sher-e-Bangla Hall, BUET