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Graft everywhere in administration

Planning secy urges Muhith for action

Staff Correspondent
The planning secretary has made a recommendation to the finance minister that exemplary punishment be given to those, who allegedly took bribes for appointment of auditors in the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
Planning Secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam revealed this at a prebudget meeting of Finance Minister AMA Muhith with the Economic Reporters' Forum (ERF) at the latter's office in the secretariat yesterday.
Bhuiyan also referred to an incident in which Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's men tried to bribe him for inclusion of a madrasa in the government's monthly pay order (MPO).
At the meeting, a journalist drew the attention of the minister to allegations that some people are takingTk 7 to 8 lakh in bribes from those seeking jobs as auditors at the CAG. The viva-voce examination of the candidates was held last month and the list of the finally selected ones is yet to be announced.
The planning secretary then suggested that the finance minister form an inter-ministerial committee to probe this. The committee should ask the job seekers what amount of bribe they gave and to whom.
This would alarm others as corruption has spread all over the administration, he said.
When the reporters asked the finance minister whether he would take any step in this regard, Muhith said, "Wait and see".
At the meeting, Bhuiyan also spoke on some incidents of corruption involving the MPO listing.
When he was a deputy secretary' in the education ministry, he was in-charge of including madrasas in the MPO. Madrasa teachers would often come to him with money in "the pockets of their punjabis" to bribe him into including their institutions in the MPO, he said.
During the rule of the four-party alliance, once some people of Delawar Hossain Sayedee's constituency came to Bhuiyan with bribes for the job, he continued.
"I rebuked them and drove them out of my room."
The next day, however, Sayedee himself came to his office and told him that the madrasa in question had to be incorporated in the MPO even if it violated the law since it was his election pledge, Bhuiyan continued.
In an area of 10,000 people, one school and one madrasa can be included in the MPO. However, there were already more madrasas in Sayedee's area than necessary. Even then Sayedee wanted another to be in the MPO.
"During inspections, I found a madrasa there which has 17 teachers and staffs but the number of students was less than 17," he said.
The secretary, however, did not mention whether the madrasa was included in the MPO in the end.