Unnecessary expenditures
We are regularly paying a large amount of money to the government exchequer in the form of taxes and fees levied on our income, savings, investments and expenses. We do not want our contribution from the hard-earned money to be mis-spent by the government agencies, as before.
Recently, we observed that the government has decided to procure 150 Pajaro Jeeps, costing Tk. 24 lakh each for the UNOs. We wonder, why it is necessary to buy such expensive transports for their use? The command area of these officials within an upazila is very small. It hardly exceeds eight miles radius. Use of telephone and public transport services are available to them. They can very well use by-cycles instead, to undertake official functions properly and that will be more economical and effective.
We can cite many such expenditures, still continuing within the government as legacy of past regimes. Such as, iftar parties, occasional visits abroad, unproductive project expenditures and outlays, unnecessary official meetings and functions, random use of public security guards, use of government transports and other services for private purposes etc. The list can be long and these expenses are beyond any financial norms and prudence. It only increases budget deficiency and money circulation without corresponding increase in financial potentiality of the country.
Time has already come to call a halt on such useless expenditures. We should have done this much earlier. The administration needs to be careful about such unnecessary expenditures from the government coffers. It needs to ensure an effective expenditure control policy outline from the highest level to make better use of our limited financial resource. If this is not done our GDP growth will remain slow and inadequate, in spite of the present thrust on mobilisation of internal resources. People will be giving higher taxes without any resultant benefit.
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