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Money Whitening

Scope to legitimise corruption

Warns rights boss

Staff Correspondent
Offering the opportunity to whiten black money in the upcoming budget will be unconstitutional and discriminatory, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.
“It's a way to legitimise corruption," he told a seminar at the Cirdap auditorium in the city.
Several former and current finance ministers had made provisions in the national budgets for whitening black money, he added. “How the corruption in the country would decline if this practice goes on?”
The ruling party in its election manifesto stood against illegal income and black money, but the government allowed whitening of black money in the capital market last year, the NHRC chief said.
The poor people of the society have no black money and thus the rich are becoming richer, while the poor are becoming even poorer, he maintained.
Right to Food and Social Security Campaign hosted the seminar on the political economy of food security.
Prof MM Akash of economics department at Dhaka University presented the keynote paper. Binayak Sen, research director at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), also spoke.
FOOD SECURITY
PROJECTS INEFFECTIVE Prof Mizanur said different campaigns and initiatives of the government were not enough to ensure food security. The state is responsible for ensuring food security for all, he added.
The government should improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of foods by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, said Prof Akash.
He proposed the government prepare a database to provide food for at least 25 percent of the poor people.
He also stressed the need
for controlling the prices of essentials in the interest of the poor and taking effective measures based on accurate statistics.
The government agencies should move on the right track to ensure food security, he added.
Binayak Sen of BIDS termed most of the ongoing projects on food security "mere tokenism."
The minimum daily wages should be revised to ensure proper distribution of the state's asset, he mentioned.
He suggested identifying the loopholes in revenue collection and plugging those immediately.