Our priorities
What is the national priority at this moment? If we go by the political language the 1st point will be poverty elimination, 2nd place will be taken by "Food for all" 3rd will be "education for all, 4th will be housing for all, 5th will be electricity for all etc. But to our surprise, none of the above issues are addressed properly, this is probably due to the fact that after the government took over the responsibility of serving the people (though they say assuming power) the above points are often issued and addressed during seminars and symposiums and most disappointingly at the public meetings. In reality what percentage of the government's success has actually taken place is what we like to know through the media. All the past governments hardly bothered to publish any documents and since a lot is expected from this government due to their huge majority and pre-election commitments, we certainly would like to see a report rather than been informed in public meetings what or how much they have achieved in the last 07 months form their oath taking.
The construction work of the Padma bridge will start soon and all sorts of paper works have probably been done by now for implementing this huge project and also we understand from the media reports that a second bridge is also in the plan for which paper work will start soon. I have nothing against either of the Padma bridges as it will only help boost the development of the country, especially with the underdeveloped southern part, but I am very concerned as these bridges will definitely connect the capital with the southern part of the country. I am sure the miserable traffic situation of the capital city will become even worse than it is at this very moment. Does the city have enough network of roads? Does the city have by pass roads or a proper ring road? I really do not see any of them and also fail to understand, why the government has not taken up any master plans yet though 210 days from their legitimate 1,825 days have passed.
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