Dear All, I like to remind us for being proud to be the citizen of an independent country, Bangladesh. But our sacrifice does not end there. After sacrificing huge number of lives and personnel dedication, we become an independent country. This independence has lead us in a new chapter where we should pay tribute for those who have given their lives 38 yrs ago. I still think that we did not implement the dream of lost lives. It's long way to go, but we never should afraid to be successful. Lets talk about few successes and huge failures in the last 38 years: BD Successes: 1) In 38 years, huge number of Bangladesh moved to various countries in the world. Few of them became well established businessmen, few have acquired prestigious education and serving fortune 100, 500 companies, few of them in education sector, few of them serving host countries as being good workers. We Non Resident Bangladeshi (NRBs) have established a credible platform in foreign countries. 2) NRBs sends more than $8 Billion per year to BD which helps people in Bangladesh and as well as Govt. 3) Few NRBs went back home to serve in various sectors to bring back the education and technologies that are needed for the 21st century. 4) Few of Bangladesh companies have earned prestige in the international markets (i.e. garments, ship buildings, shrimp exporting, etc.). This is happened because of our Independence too. BD Failures: 1) In the last 38 years, there are multiple people run the countries and have created partisan politics which hampered the country growth. Few of them used hortal, vandalism, and violence to gain their power. 2) Student politics was created where proper education is lacking in Bangladesh except few universities. 3) Few of the BD leaders did not help to reconciliate the hatred among various political parties supporters. This also has created unrest among various locations, colleges and universities. 4) Family politics also hurts Bangladesh more than ever. 5) Income between poor and rich has widen. Sometimes corruption has created this gap wider than it should. 6) BD Govts never asked help from NRBs to help the countries or created the policies to attract them. If we look at India, their biggest help comes from NRIs. BD Govt never realized and even today they are blind in this issue. 7) Previous and current BD Govt are not helping to brighten the image of Bangladesh to abroad. If a son of a family with 5 kids becomes trouble makers, we should not call the whole family the trouble maker, but we should counsel or guide the one who is trouble maker. What is happening in BD? A few trouble makers in BD creating the image that the country is bad and people are also bad. BD Govt is not helping either. 8) Politics in BD is not helping to create good image in abroad. This could be reason of short knowledge, ignorance, or power hungry in BD. BD Govt should work to eliminate the anti-Bangladesh propaganda with understanding the international politics. Its easy to seed the bad image but it takes generation to wipe out the bad image. I still believe that there are good people both in AL & BNP and believe inclusion for good blood into the political parties too. Bangladesh will have to live with both AL & BNP and we all should help them to be successful for the sake of 160 Million people and the country. I still believe that NRBs are in the front line to help Bangladesh and her economy. God bless Bangladesh and her people! Regards, M M Chowdhury (Mithu), USA Director, Poltical and Economical Development in Bangladesh Change Bangladesh Organization, USA Note: M M Chowdhury is at http://www.facebook.com/people/Mohammad-M-Chowdhury/611247409 |
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