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Outsourcing of jobs
The outsourcing of jobs from the west to countries where the cost of labour is comparatively low has been a popular method of saving money by many corporations. By doing this these corporations, companies and organisations are not faced with the high labour costs that include high cost of health insurance and other fringe benefits, not to mention the high wages.
India has taken advantage of this outsourcing trend in great strides. The country has become the hotbed for Information Technology and other auxiliary services such as payroll management call centres etc. Nowadays whenever one gets a phone call from a credit card company or tries to contact a call centre one usually ends up talking to someone with an English name but with an Indian accent. Part of the training included these Indian employees to take on western name so as to communicate better with their customers who are located in
should not be surprised if someone named Harry is actually Hari.
Now with such opportunities one wonders if Bangladesh is ever going to truly take advantage of this to decrease the unemployment rate of our country.
Zeenat Z Syed
UPS eDeployment
Congratulations!
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone at The Daily Star for providing an excellent service, for Bangladeshi readers world-wide.
I have never been interested in Bangladesh until very recently, when I spent three months in a luxurious house in Beani Bazar -Sylhet. This was my first visit to Bangladesh and I instantly fell in love with the country. Since arriving back in the UK, I have had a mad craving of going back to this beautiful country.
I have done a lot of research on Bangladesh, just to have a better
grasp of the roots of my culture. I have found your website to be the best yet for providing this type of information.
Shahanara Begum
London
Drive against food adulteration
Better late than never, the Bangladesh government has taken a step to stop the food suppliers from serving polluted and rotten food. The mobile courts are discovering the ugly things every day, which are really amazing! Everybody knew the matter but I think nobody could ever guess the extent of this heinous business. But my point is that the actions that are being taken against those food sellers and producers are not enough.
Tk 10 to 20 thousand is a minor chastisement for these businessmen as they earn as much each day.
If the law doesn't support the magistrate to fine them more than that amount I have a very good
proposal.
Just publish the names of the convicted shops in a list on the newspapers once a month for the next one year as an advertisement of "Jonosharthe Bangladesh Sarkar" and ask people to buy foods from those shop at their own responsibility.
Or, put up a sticker or a banner in front of the shops writing, "This shop is facing the allegation of serving polluted foods" and compel the shop managers to hang them for six months.
Jaffrey Al- Kadry
NSS Engineer, Banglalink
Wrong response
Honest traders are also bitterly complaining about the ongoing raids siding inadvertently with the unscrupulous traders. Businessmen and traders blame the recent newspaper reports for their sufferings as sale of ghee, creamless mawa and yogurt has fallen significantly at the Ghee Potti at Patuatuli
in Old Dhaka.
When adulteration was introduced all around the complaint should have been even bitterer. And why was it introduced?
Now the consequence is staring at us - the complete degradation of our society. And I suppose I don't need to elaborate.
Sazzad Hossain On e-mail
Warnings in London
Those of you, who have visited UK, must have noticed the outrageous amount of warning messages everywhere. Warnings for drivers, pedestrians, shoppers, visitors and so on. Many of these are very useful and they prevent a lot of accidents and deaths. However, this warning business has now reached such a level that it is becoming irritating, foolish and even dangerous! Take the warning on a polythene bag, for example. It says "This is not a toy, keep away from babies and children". But babies can't read children
will not heed the advice and parents already know that this is not a toy. So who is this message for? And what about those warnings on cigarette packets? How many people have you met in your whole life who have given up smoking after reading those messages? But, by far the most absurd sign I encountered was one near a flight of outdoor stairs. It warned people to take care when using those stairs. You might say this is a bright idea. Think again.
People take extra care when climbing stairs anyway. It would be quite dangerous to look at a signboard and read it while climbing the stairs. So when you put a signboard near any stairs, instead of helping people, you may well paralyse someone for life!
Azad Miah
Oldham, UK
Social degradation
I was really happy & surprised to see the article written by Mr. Abdul
Khaleque, ex- I G & Secretary in The Daily Star on the above topic. It is a mere coincidence, since I was thinking about this very sensitive issue for the last few days; in addition to this I am taking class on Criminology, where this topic strikes my mind frequently. This topic becomes sensitive if we consider the degradations in every aspect of our society.
The issue is vital and very much related with the devastation of the society. The juvenile group is a major group of our country & it is high time that we focused our attention on them to make them real human beings; we want to make them powerful nation building blocks. We can consider this group like mud, proper planning & efforts can make them good and sensible citizens. The chapter covering this topic focuses on two major things-- one is related with the root causes of the problem & the other deals with all the propositions of rehabilitation of the delinquent group in society, which is
more important than only going for punishment.
Farhana H Mehtab
University Of Development Alternative
Ideology
If Bangladesh is renamed as " Islamic Republic of Bangladesh," it will make no difference to me, as my opposition to the move will be just a futile exercise for me.
I recall a proposal by Mr. Monem Khan (governor of East Pakistan) urging Prof Abdul Hai to compose Rabindra Sangeet and in reply Prof Hai commented that "It would be Hai Sangeet."
I also recall our Dhaka city code in the Iata record (International Air Transport Association), which is still maintained as "Dac" (from Dacca). The same case I believe is with Calcutta, Bombay, Madras etc.
I conclude by saying that people cannot be forced to eat ideology.
Thomas Gomes Bhura
Monipuripara, Tejgaon, Dhaka