Governance--the myopic view
The RMG sector is being unintentionally weakened by the successive political regimes; as the labour unions are being politicised -- for vote banks and illegal tolls.
“Office-bearership” is big business. The RMG factory owners are suspicious of the unions; and there is communication gap in introducing healthy and normal practices. The spate of violent incidents in several garment factories is an indicator of the shape of ugliness which has emerged due to cracks and fault lines in political culture practised in Bangladesh.
Similarly, the civil service has been politicised at critical points in the network. The party always comes first- above the national interest! The people have noticed the differences in quality and outputs after the two-year caretaker government rule; which revealed the weaknesses of polarised administration.
Why the political party behaviour patterns cannot follow national consensus guidelines? Today the BNP is in a pathetic condition -- cannot reorganise the party, after the massive debacle during the last general elections. The six months of AL rule is not inspiring. The leaders do not notice such vacuums.
The new PPP scheme is a severe tester of public confidence in honest delivery of public services. Ruling through mastans and toll collections is not the criteria the nation adopted since its birth.
The governing mindset is terrible. Now it is proposed to ban three-wheelers from Dhaka city -- having utterly failed to operate taxi fare meters. How to travel in the city without getting into a bus, and having no private car? Why underground rail when unaccompanied women won't travel after sunset for security reasons?
Maintenance is not so easy in an LDC. Why this hankering for mega projects, which cannot be completed in five years, and there is no guarantee of continuity by the next incoming regime?
Parliament is a lame duck. If non-appearance of the Opposition is so popular in Dhaka, why not change the constitution to remove the political conflicts?
There is no time to wait, after three decades of dilly-dallying.
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