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Experts for central body to promote corporate governance

Star Business Report
Experts yesterday stressed the need for establishing a central coordinating agency to provide a regulatory framework and to promote and monitor the best corporate governance practices in both the public and private sectors.
"The issues of Corporate Governance (CG) is gaining importance across the globe. In India, there is a full-fledged ministry for corporate affairs. Here, we should have at least a central agency to do all these tasks,” said Siddiqur Rahman Choudhury, chairman of Agrani Bank.
Siddiqur said only two government agencies- Bangladesh Bank and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) usually take care of CG practices here.
“Bangladesh Bank tends to the affairs of the banks while the SEC takes care of listed companies. But there is no separate government entity to promote the corporate governance practices in both the public and private sectors," he said.
The Agrani Bank chairman, who is also the former finance secretary, placed the recommendation at a workshop on Capacity Building Programme on the Role and
Responsibilities of the Board Members of State Owned Enterprises (SoEs).
The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BED organised the programme, inaugurated by Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam. BEI President Farooq Sobhan chaired the function.
The Agrani Bank chairman said the major reason behind the poor performance of SoEs
was the lack of good corporate governance practices.
There are over 40 state-owned corporations and about 200 subsidiary enterprises in Bangladesh.
The finance adviser however said that the government would consider the issue of establishing a central agency for CG issues if it receives any proposal in this regard.
"We will examine the
options if we receive any such proposal," the finance adviser said replying to The Daily Star.
Mirza Aziz suggested that a board of a company should refrain from getting involved with the operational matters of the company. The board should set the performance indicators for the management. “They should monitor actual compliance of those indicators,” he said.