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Will govt fulfil the dream?
I was imagining this scenario: My sons and daughters have stopped going to their private tutors and started to rise early in the morning to say their prayers peacefully without the thought of the tutors chasing them at that pristine time. After the prayer they are reading religious books to recharge themselves morally. Then they are reading that day's daily newspaper to keep themselves informed of the happenings from home and abroad. Before going to school, they are reading textbooks so that they can properly understand the topics to be taught by the teachers. In the afternoon, they would play with their friends. No more huffing and puffing because they need not go to the private tutors'. Besides that, parents would be spared the tension and expenses that private tuition entails.
The present government policy against the coaching business run by the teachers induced me to dream this dream. I wonder whether my dream will be stolen by the sinister syndicate of teachers going against this policy and the government treating the errant teachers with kid gloves without thinking about the greater interest of the nation.
Abdus Subhan
Ishwardi Govt. College
Ishwardi
Pahna
Being sparing in the use of wood
The quality of wood in this dear country is amazing. I stand open-mouthed outside peoples’ hardwood front doors, admiring a standard rarely seen in my 'rich' country because of their price there!
As England is not next door to the jungles of India, our use of wood is generally much more sparing - and, I must say, appreciative - than many of your readers, sir. I used to lie awake in my flat in Halughat, listening to the insects chewing away at the doorjambs! I saw lorries carrying huge logs (smuggled?) rumbling by and noted the chairs and 'sofas' the local carpenters made with huge arms, that took several men to shift! It seemed none of this wood is treated with preservative as it is assumed it will just rot - and be replaced by more where it came from - except that few can now plead ignorance of the fate of the world's forests.
Surely, we should all be brought up to LOOK at wood, stroke it, thank God for it and care for it, so that fewer people chop down trees with such careless abandon, thinking only of their personal profit or the convenience of having them out of the way. The care of our environment is surely 'all in the mind'.
Angela Robinson
Metro rail for whose benefit?
From the June 25 and 26 issues of the Prothom Alo, we learnt of two very disturbing pieces of news. The first one was about DAP (Detailed Area Plan) of Dhaka. My letter was published on July 5,2010 thanking the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for backing the recovery of grabbed rivers and lands. At a meeting on June 21,2010, she assigned seven ministers to implement the plan. But in the two years nothing has been done and the plan is going to be changed for the benefit of the land grabbers.
The second one was about the flyovers and over-bridges. We were thinking that those will reduce traffic jam, while metropolitan police and experts are saying that it will increase the traffic jam, special lanes for buses. So metrorails would be the solution. A few people wishing to remain anonymous and are in charge of different departments tasked to build the flyovers and over-bridges said to the Prothom Alo that the government was interested in it for two reasons; first, the people could see the project and the second, the project cost estimated at 28 thousand crore taka, they would be able to pocket a sizeable sum in the name of commission from the project.
For the unbridled greed of some people in the government, the entire nation is suffering.
Nur Jahan
Chittagong
Clean the mess
On June 28,1 read the article titled “A bullet-proof arms trade treaty” with lots of interest, in your editorial page. All kind of arms & ammunitions are entering through our neighbouring countries without any control whatsoever. This is the most worrying part.
When a pistol or a revolver is available at home, especially, at times when bad temper takes over, people may be tempted to fire a few shots. They may even kill themselves, or even murder someone. This is the general human behaviour. Crime rate is simply going up because of presence of arms in the market. To destroy a society you need two things: guns and drugs available at cheap price. In that society would disintegrate automatically and nothing can be done about that.
The security forces under the defence and home ministry should come to society's aid and clean-up the society immediately. At the moment, the police, RAB, Ansar, etc are not in a position to clean such a mess; let's do it now before the next election. Or else it is going to be a bigger mess.
Sheikh monirul Islam, Opee
On e-mail
Govt, should accept fact
It is not understandable why the government is picking up a quarrel with World Bank. We are a sovereign state. May be, we are a developing country but we are blessed with a Nobel Laureate, and highly intellectual people who are as brilliant as the Westerners are. The Finance Minister had the experience of working with the international agencies when he was posted in Washington DC for several years. He should understand what is right, and what is wrong instead of giving opinions and counter opinions. He is the most senior member in the cabinet, and I am sure his words would certainly be accepted by our Prime Minister. So, instead of giving opinion and counter opinion on Padma Bridge; let us for once call a spade a spade and stand on the correct footing. No matter if it belittles our head for the wrongdoings of others, but let us not jeopardize our potential as an intellectually fertile nation.
Tayab-ul-Huq
Save the Rohingyas
Rohingya Muslims are perhaps the most neglected, persecuted and friendless human community in the present day world. This poor and forlorn ethnic community has long been groaning under abject poverty, gross injustice and inhuman persecution by the majority Budhists and armed forces of their own country.
Though the Rohingyas have been living in Myanmar for generations, majority Budhists and the ruling military junta consider them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The recent communal violence in Rakhine is but the continuation of the age-old persecution and discrimination on the Rohingyas. It is reported that hundreds of helpless Rohingyas are now fleeing their ancestral homes and trying to cross into Bangladesh to save their lives. But our government is refusing their entry on the plea that Bangladesh is already overburdened with thousands of Rohingya refugees who crossed into Bangladesh about 20 years ago.
It is high time our government raised the Rohingya issue in the UN to put pressure on the Myanmar authorities for a lasting solution to this problem. We hope the QIC and other human rights groups will also come forward to permanently stop human tragedies being committed in Myanmar.
Md. Mohsin Ali
Nutan Courtpara
Kushtia