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Bureaucratic tangle, political interference hinder rural dev

UP chairmen tell journalists

Staff Correspondent
Bureaucratic tangle and political interference in approving the projects at union parishad (UP) level seriously hamper the rural development, said the UPleadersyesterday.
They said due to interference of upazila nlrbahl officers (UNOs) and non-participation of UP chairmen at district development coordination committee (DDCC), much-needed projects cannot be taken up.
Addressing a press conference at the National Press Cub, Bangladesh Union Parishad Chairmen Samity (BUPCS) President Mir Enayet Hossain Montu said the UP level projects are placed at the upazila development coordinationcommittee, (UDCC);forprimaryseIcction.
Tito meeting is attended by UNO,' officials of other departments at upazila level and the UP chairmen.
The selected projects are then sent to the members of parliament (MPs) who are the advisor of the UDCC. They re-scrutinise die projects on the basis of their own choice and then send them to the DDCC where the minister-in:charge of the district or the MP as its chairman approves the projects finally.
"As a result, many important projects are either consciously or unconsciously excluded," said EnayetHossain.
Besides, there are evidences that many urgent projects could not be implemented timely as ministers or MPs concerned remain out of the country or find no time to attend die DDCCmeeting, he added.
Enayet Hossain said money allocated this year to repair flood damaged roads Under 'Fqod for Work' programme was so meager that even 20 percent of the work
could not be completed.
BUPCS Secretary General Abul Haris Rikabdcr said the authority of auctioning major markets and leasing out of water bodies has also been transferred to the UNOs. "This has created fund constraints at the UPs violating the power of the peoples' representatives and hampering the rural development," he added.
The UPs are supposed to get one percent of the total land registration fees, but that is never given to them. The UP chairmen have to persuade the UNOs to get that revenue, he said, adding, "It is really pity for the peoples' representatives to request their own employees for fund."
BUPCS I’ublicitySecretary Abdur Razzak Pintu saidthehonorariumof a UP chairman and a member is only Tk 500 and Tk 300 respectively whichisverydisgraccfulforthcm.