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Free local govt from politicisation, bureaucratic interference

Speakers tell seminar
Staff Correspondent
Local government institutions should be made accountable to local people and tree from politicisation and bureaucratic interference in order to strengthen democratic practices and ensure development at the grassroots level, experts said at a seminar yesterday.
They also called on the caretaker government to make public die proposed ordinance regarding the local government and take appropriate steps to implement the recommendations made by the local government reforms committee.
Governance Coalition and 26 other NGOs and citizens’ organisations organised the seminar on
Initiatives for Strong Local
Government and Future Perspectives' at the Women
Volunteers' Association (WVA) auditorium in the capital.
The seminar was part of Global Economic lustice Forum' that began in the city on Tuesday with the slogan 'Unite foi global economic justice'.
Speaking as the chief guest, lustice Golam Rabbani said the local government cannot play its due role because it is controlled by the bureaucrats.
Presenting the keynote paper, Governance Coalition National Projeqt Coordinator Abdus Shukur said that the upazila and zila parishad elections should be held simultaneously with the national elections.
Dr M Abul Kashem Majumder, chairman of public administration department at Jahangirnagar University, called on the government to increase the facilities for local government representatives in order to check corruption.
Nagorik Uddog Executive Director Zakir Hossain said the elected local government representatives are highly politicised, which raises doubts about how they would deliver services if they are given full responsibilities.
He. however, said, "We have to empower them as well as ensure that the elected representatives work for the welfare of all people in their areas, not only for those who worked in support of the representatives."
PR1P Trust Director Dr Kazal Chaterjee said all development plans should come from local level and contribute to the formulation of development strategies at the national level.
He also suggested that schools, hospitals and economic activities under local government units should be managed by the people at local level.
Population Services and Training Centre Director Dr Nitai Kanti Das and Nari Uddog Kendra Executive Director Mashuda Khatun Shefali also spoke at the seminar moderated by Governance Coalition Coordinator Mohsin Ali.