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GB Commission Muhith irked by delay in placing report

Rejaul Karim Byron and Md Fazlur Rahman
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is embarrassed over the long delay in the submission of the final report of the Grameen Bank Commission, as his ministry has failed to obtain it despite repeated efforts.
"The minister expressed his dissatisfaction a number of times, as he could not get the report despite repeated attempts," a finance ministry official told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity.
"Even before leaving the country for the US on October 7, the minister showed his annoyance at the commission chairman's failure to submit the report," said the official.
Muhith has been desperately trying to get the final report, as he needs to show the commission's recommendations as the basis of the bill on the proposed Grameen Bank Act 2013 he is about to place in parliament.
The cabinet has already approved the draft of the act without getting the commission's final report. The draft is now at the law ministry for vetting.
Muhith had pressed Mamun Ur Rashid, the chairman of the government-sponsored commission, to submit the report before taking the draft law to the cabinet on October 3.
As Muhith couldn't get the report, he then asked Rashid to submit it at least before the bill on the proposed act is placed in the House.
Rashid didn't turn in the report as of yesterday. He, however, emailed Muhith on October 7, hours before the minister left for Washington to attend the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
In the correspondence, the former bureaucrat said he would submit the final report after making some minor changes to the interim report that the commission turned in to the ministry in February, said a finance ministry official, preferring anonymity.
A set of recommendations on Grameen Bank's 48 associated organisations would be the only new inclusion in the report, said the official.
It might take about a month to finalise the report with the recommendations, said the official.
However, the minister told reporters on October 7 that he could take action on the basis of the recommendations he had received so far from the commission.
The minister even sent an official to Rashid's house in Dhaka recently, but the official was told that he was out of the country.
Though the commission's tenure expired on July 20, the finance ministry continued to provide it with manpower and other assistance ever after the period.
The chairman used his Dhanmondi house as his office to prepare the final
report.
Several officials at the Banking Division said they were unaware of the commission's activities after its office was closed on July 20.
There have been lapses in coordination among the commission members. Ajmalul Hossain QC, a member of the commission, submitted his own part of the report to the finance ministry on August 23.
Initially, the minister couldn't determine whether it was the final report or not. Later, it emerged that Ajmalul submitted only his part of the report, which dealt with legal issues.
The government last year set up the commission to review the operation of Grameen Bank and the associated organisations founded by Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, and to make recommendations about their future structures.
The commission has faced criticism at home and abroad for its recommendations, particularly the one for splitting Grameen Bank into 19 units.