Too many problems
The Bangladeshi nation is plagued by so many maladies!
Unplanned and over-POPULATION, poor health, very low quality education, one of the lowest per capita incomes, extremely poor infrastructure, miserably poor human development index, mismanagement of national and natural resources, lack of responsibility and planning, dirt and filth all around, lack of proper policies and its execution, and the all-crowning corruption! These are but only a few.
The complaints and negatives are almost insurmountable!
But inactive parliament, continuous boycotting, and equally irresponsible political parties help fuel the decay of the nation!
It is an Emergency! We must make and execute some sound national policies to gradually reduce the damage that we are suffering from.
Education is the Best Recipe.
The present govt. with a huge mandate must sanction more funds for education up to the secondary level. The nation looks upon the govt. with very high expectations! This improvement in training and facilitation in the education sector will help the nation in every way in due course-- mid and long term.
Lack of job and basic necessities, lack of education make people mindless, thoughtless, and so irrational! They are then hardened and can be desperate and weak-willed. They become vulnerable.
We can easily find the roots to all social ills, poverty, mismanagement and corruption and so on. It is nothing but lack of sound policies and implementation and lack of education. The epitome of all this is lack of sound, effective and enlightened leadership! If the head means business, all others will follow suit. Sometimes democracy must be tailor-made to sincerely suit the national interests.
But what do we see now? Nepotism and its ugliness in the fiercest form.
Vicious student politics is the single, worst ever thing that could happen to our society and nation. But the PM and the DU VC support its continuation, forgetting that the odds are far too damaging than its positive role, if any. This is not so pronounced in other developing countries. This is another cancer in the nation's body politic.
So many letters, so much of TV talks, but to deaf ears!
Bangladeshis love to talk (adda) away the whole day without any action or result.
Can we see any concrete action in the offing to reduce the ever-increasing damage and the unabated militancy and sword-wielding by 'student' leaders? Can we get some lessons from the recent past and also from our neighbouring countries how to shed our poverty tagged image and turn the corner towards light and action?
It is high time we did so.
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