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Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former adviser to a caretaker government, speaks at a workshop titled “Capacity improvement of mass media” organised by PPRC Chittagong Research Initiative at Brac Training Centre in the port city of Chittagong yesterday.Photo: STAR
Speakers at a workshop here yesterday suggested decentralising the administration to convert Chittagong city into a financial hub connected to the South Asian region. They also called to establish Chittagong as an economic zone, issuing municipality bonds to finance infrastructure development, encouraging research on low-income residence and publishing a book on the facilities and qualities of the city. The workshop titled “Capacity improvement of mass media” was organised by PPRC Chittagong Research Initiative at Brac Training Centre in the city. Speaking at the workshop, Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former adviser to a caretaker government, said a big challenge for the government is decentralising the administration and bring its reform. He said neither is good work rewarded nor something bad is punished in the administration, providing a scope for its politicisation. Saleh Uddin Ahmed, former governor of Bangladesh Bank, said overall development of a country is not possible while leaving one of its parts behind. AK Khan Foundation Chairman Saleh Uddin Kashem Khan, journalist Ataus Samad and Dr Adnan Morshed, associate professor of Catholic University, Washington DC, USA, spoke at the workshop, moderated by former adviser to the caretaker government Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman.
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