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TO THE EDITOR
"IT: We wished, with hope"
There were always some horse trading regarding IT professionals and IT industries in Bangladesh. Our worn-out telecommunication infrastructure and the lack of farsighted policies never let this industry boom, but the reverse has happened with India and China. A little state-level commitment can help project our IT professionals into the world market. Needless to say, our biggest source of forex currently comes from our expatriates.
Beside sending fisherman to Korea, security guards and nurses to the Middle East etc, let's send some of our IT professionals abroad.
When Microsoft says they have got a long (erm commitment to India and also plans to invest billions in China for further research of its products, we the poor IT fellows of Bangladesh look upto our ministry of science and technology for some hope. Our IT professionals can emulate their counterparts in India or China, but tack of state level backup is obstructing this possibility. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs as
well as the Ministry of Science and Technology can conjointly find some new markets for pushing in Bangladeshi IT professionals. Notably countries like Germany, Canada and Australia need a large number of IT professionals, which we are ready to provide.
Microsoft Corp plans to hire 6,000 to 7,000 employees worldwide during its current fiscal year. Only state-level arrangement between the two sides can ensure that our IT professional step into the worlds market. Many of my countrymen are already working for some big IT giants such as Microsoft inc., Oracle corp., Hewlett-Packard etc, per-formingcommendably.
In China the state-level body communicates with big IT giants and invites them to invest in their land of high potential. Time to time they do campus recruiting and at the same time maintain a large human resource database for regularising their process. The same strategy is followed by India to attract IT giants. We can implement our neighbour’s policy by steadily closing the gap between our strength and technology.
It is always better late than never.
Thufiq I folder Chowdhury
Dept of Information Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
The elite force
Initially, it was thought that RAB would be ineffective. But now it appears much more effective and well-equipped anti-terrorism force. Already it has progressed significantly with success. It is now the only name that induces scare in the hearts of the terrorists in Bangladesh.
But, death in 'crossfire ' is not always acceptable unless it faces resistance. It should arrest the criminals and their godfathers for trial under law and recover illegal arms. Despite some controversial killings in captivity and in ’crossfire', common people welcome its activities because of its firm commitment to combat terrorism. Nevertheless, it has to be very cautious in conducting operations so that fears could not touch the innocents. It is true that the newly born elite force has become enemy of criminals, but still it
needs to prove itself as a friend of the people.
Biddut Khoshnoblsh
PurbaAdalatPara, Tangail
A good suggestion
A couple of days ago a letter caught my attention. It was about some improvement that our Mobile phone operators can easily effect. I totally agree with the writer. The subscribers of Grameen and Citycell can exchange SMS among themselves but a large number are using AkteLThey can't exchange SMS with Grammen or CityccII subscribers and this is really a great shortcoming. SMS is a very popular way of communicatiing & our operators should realise this fact.
I hope that all the mobile phone operators in our country will take necessary steps in this respect so that we can exchange SMS with all mobile phone users.
Saquib
On e-mail
Linking roads
The City Corporation deserves kudos for their recent initiatives in beautification and improvement of city roads. However, in order to
overcome the ever-growing traffic menace, linking different roads remains one of the answers. I would like to draw the attention of the city fathers towards construction and improvement of some important link roads.These include:
•Allowing vehicles to ply through BDR (from Jhikatola to Peelkhana). If vehicles can ply through cantonment areas, there is no reason why vehicles cannot move through BDR. This will greatly benefit the people and save lot of time.
•Shat Raster Moar to Kazi Nazrul Islam Road (Airport Road). Already a road exists occupied by truck stand, which would require re-location.
•Continuation of Mohakhali Flyover Road to Rokeya Sharani through the Parade Ground. (The road may be closed for the purpose of parade on specific days of the year).
•Re-location of Kamalapur Railway station to Joydevpur and converting the existing rail track to highway from Airport to Kamalapur.
•Improvement and widening of existing link road from Bangla Motor to Green Road through Kathal bagan.
•Construction of new link road from Shaheed Tajuddin Road (Tongi Diversion Road) to Kazi Nazrul
Islam Road (Airport Road) through Tejgaon Industrial area.
•Vehicles should be allowed to ply through cantonment areas as before. It has greatly benefited the people in the past. The recent decision to prohibit the normal traffic flow has only increased the problem manifold. Plying of vehicles (buses and trucks) maybe restricted.
•Construction of road from Karwan Bazaar to Gulshan through Hatir Jheel.
•Construction and improvement of road from Ramna Star Gate to Notre Dame College should be completed immediately.
S Ahmed
Mymensingh Road, Bangla Motor, Dhaka
Trend!
I have noticed that lately many art exhibitions were opened by foreign ambassadors instead of someone who is more directly involved with art, say a famous artist. I was thinking about the reason behind it — whether they appreciate art better or they make the after-inauguration party more prestigious?
Shahed Mustafa
Dept of/US, Dhaka University
An appeal to hotel owners / entrepreneurs Please make sure to provide jobs to dedicated, sincere, honest, personnel who work/worked in service oriented industries specially in fast food shops, ice-cream boutiques and factories, cafes, restaurants, general hotels etc.
Give opportunity individuals who are work experienced but don't possess experience and training certificates, as most of the concerned owners do not lik sake of their own interest and do not like to provide training, follow labour laws and do not to maintain service book.
Take necessary measures to provide support to the hired personnel who have great and keen interest to take on the job training and to study in hotel management, cooking technology, hospitality, tourism and catering management and so on.
Give greater chance to individuals experienced in service oriented industries (who have strong principle but are not financially solvent to go aboard) to work in 5 star hotels in their own country.
Do not mention age and education limit to hire dedicated and
experienced individuals for some positions (like cooks, cleaners, gardeners etc.) in 5 star hotels.
Take initiative to provide/operatc excellent Bangla, English, Arabic, French, Spanish etc. Language training, computer training and so on for hired personnel in 5 star hotel.
Open a world class hotel and tourism training institute adjacent to 5 star hotels to provide / operate training for eager personnel who are financially incapable.
Provide jobs to creative personnel in cafe, restaurant and general hotel development works.
Allow to organise labour welfare association for the well-being of staffs in 5 star hotel premises but do not allow government backed unionism.
Make sure to provide life time job for the staffs and management team members.
Ensure to fix or increase salary and other benefits keeping consistently upward trnd of cost of living in mind.
Introduce separate halal food and Islamic for religious minded Muslims and Bangladeshi authentic food in appropriate ambience Md Anisuzzaman Shamoli, Dhaka