Development of divisions
Every place within the country is to be developed equally, so that people can receive better services provided by the government and other major financial and educational institutions. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure even development of the country, irrespective of their representation in the government from the constituency. But what we see in practice is that major public development works are mostly based on the decisions of the party-in-power without ensuring optimum distribution of the same. During the last BNP-led government many major development activities were undertaken either in Bogra or in Sylhet and these two districts had powerful ministers. On the other hand, many southern districts were mostly neglected and some development works of Khulna city, approved by the past AL-led government, were countermanded. The prime minister of the immediate past government always used to say that her government's goal was to ensure equal development all over the country. But in reality it has not happened and many development plans were executed in a biased manner without taking into consideration the collective interests of people.
There should be some distinct plans for the development of metropolitan cities and all those plans should have the same features.
To have an effective and efficient administrative set-up, the geographical divisions have to be more authoritative in providing vital and basic support to various activities of the government and in meeting the public demands. Thus the influx towards capital would come down gradually. Therefore adequate facilities, ensuring fulfilment of basic needs at the division level, would gradually reduce the extra burden of people in the capital coming from the districts and rural areas.
If the divisional or regional public and private institutions are strengthened to provide optimum services to the localities, then the concept of establishment of division would be meaningful and various services and facilities would be available at the doorsteps of local people.
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