Ministries at loggerheads!
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An eye-opening report was published in a local English daily on 21st December, highlighting the infighting between ministries. It is an example of time wasting by the bureaucracy at the cost of national interest! Quite rightly, the energy ministry views the procrastination by the law ministry in violation of specific government directive asking all ministries concerned to expedite files related to matters of power and energy on 'urgent' basis, as stated by the energy ministry. Does the nit-picking law ministry care? Despite the energy ministry's twice clarifying the queries of the law ministry, it has again asked the energy ministry for clarification, reportedly, on some 'trifling matters,' as stated by energy ministry officials publicly. Since the matter is of public interest, and the energy situation in Bangladesh is desperate, these smack of willful disruption by certain officials, who are acting against national interests. Why not the officials of the two ministries at the highest level sit across the table with a high ranking official of the government audit body and sort out the issue, and identify the root of this delay. Readers' opinion, and your follow up of this particular issue, will be an eye opener for the public suffering from continued shortage of energy.
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