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[ALOCHONA] Ramadan coming, prices rising. Commerce Minister and TCB ?



Ramadan coming, prices rising. Commerce Minister and TCB ?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] The Fall of Obama



The Fall of Obama

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price
 
exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no "good" American president. It's an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to being finished.

The nation's first black president promised change at the precise moment when no single man, even if endowed with the communicative powers of Franklin Roosevelt, the politic mastery of Lyndon Johnson, the brazen agility of Bill Clinton, could turn the tide that has been carrying America to disaster for 30 years.

This summer many Americans are frightened. Over 100,000 of them file for bankruptcy every month. Three million homeowners face foreclosure this year. Add them to the 2.8 million who were foreclosed in 2009, Obama's first year in office. Nearly seven million have been without jobs in the last year for six months or longer. By the time you tot up the people who have given up looking for work and the people on part-time, the total is heading toward 20 million.

Fearful people are irrational. So are racists. Obama is the target of insane charges. A hefty percentage of Americans believe that he is a socialist – a charge as ludicrous as accusing the Archbishop of Canterbury of being a closet Druid. Obama reveres the capitalist system. He admires the apex predators of Wall Street who showered his campaign treasury with millions of dollars. The frightful catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico stemmed directly from the green light he and his Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, gave to BP.

It is not Obama's fault that for 30 years America's policy – under Reagan, both Bushes and Bill Clinton – has been to export jobs permanently to the Third World. The jobs that Americans now desperately seek are no longer here, in the homeland, and never will be. They're in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Indonesia.

No stimulus program, giving money to cement contractors to fix potholes along the federal interstate highway system, is going to bring those jobs back. Highly trained tool and die workers, the aristocrats of the manufacturing sector, are flipping hamburgers – at best – for $7.50 an hour because U.S. corporations sent their jobs to Guangzhou, with the approval of politicians flush with the money of the "free trade" lobby.

It is not Obama's fault that across 30 years more and more money has floated up to the apex of the social pyramid till America is heading back to where it was in the 1880s, a nation of tramps and millionaires. It's not his fault that every tax break, every regulation, every judicial decision tilts toward business and the rich. That was the neoliberal America conjured into malign vitality back in the mid 1970s.

But it is Obama's fault that he did not understand this, that always, from the getgo, he flattered Americans with paeans to their greatness, without adequate warning of the political and corporate corruption destroying America and the resistance he would face if he really fought against the prevailing arrangements that were destroying America.  He offered them a free and easy pass to a better future, and now they see that the promise was empty.

It's Obama's fault, too, that, as a communicator, he cannot rally and inspire the nation from its fears. From his earliest years he has schooled himself not to be excitable, not to be an angry black man who would be alarming to his white friends at Harvard and his later corporate patrons. Self-control was his passport to the guardians of the system, who were desperate to find a symbolic leader to restore America's credibility in the world after the disasters of the Bush era. He is too cool.

So, now Americans in increasing numbers have lost confidence in him. For the first time in the polls negative assessments outnumber the positive. He no longer commands trust. His support is drifting down to 40 per cent. The straddle that allowed him to flatter corporate chieftains at the same time as blue-collar workers now seems like the most vapid opportunism. The casual campaign pledge to wipe out al-Quaida in Afghanistan is now being cashed out in a disastrous campaign viewed with dismay by a majority of Americans.

The polls portend disaster. It now looks as though the Republicans may well recapture not only the House but, conceivably, the Senate as well. The public mood is so contrarian that, even though polls show that voters think the Democrats may well have better solutions on the economy than Republicans, they will vote against incumbent Democrats in the midterm elections next fall. They just want to throw the bums out.

Obama has sought out Bill Clinton to advise him in this desperate hour. If Clinton is frank, he will remind Obama that his own hopes for a progressive first term were destroyed by the failure of his health reform in the spring of 1993. By August of that year, he was importing a Republican, David Gergen, to run the White House.

Obama had his window of opportunity last year, when he could have made jobs and financial reform his prime objectives. That's what Americans hoped for. Mesmerized by economic advisers who were creatures of the banks, he instead plunged into the Sargasso Sea of "health reform," wasted the better part of a year, and ended up with something that pleases no one. 

What can save Obama now? It's hard even to identify a straw he can grasp at. It's awfully early in the game to say it, but, as Marlene Dietrich said to Orson Welles in Touch of Evil, "your future is all used up."

Ben Sonnenberg: Farewell to A Friend

Ben Sonnenberg died on June 26, at the age of 73, and with his passing CounterPunch has lost its long-time counselor. The world has lost a true humanist in the full Renaissance strength of that word, one in whom refinement of taste, wideness of reading mingled with political passion. I mourn a very close friend.

His greatest literary achievement was Grand Street, the quarterly he founded in 1981, and edited till 1990, when multiple sclerosis was far advanced and his fortune somewhat depleted. His friend Jean Stein took the magazine over and it ran till 2004. As he put it laconically, "I printed only what I liked; never once did I publish an editorial statement; I offered no writers' guidelines; and I stopped when I couldn't turn the pages anymore." As another great editor Bruce Anderson, of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, wrote after Ben's death, "Grand Street under Sonnenberg was the best literary magazine ever produced in this doomed country. His Grand Street was readable front-to-back. If you've never seen a Grand Street, the last literary quarterly we're going to have, hustle out to the last book store and get yourself one and lament what is gone."

When I first came to New York in 1973, I went to a couple of parties thrown by Ben's father, Ben Sr., one of the trailblazers in public relations who gave elaborately staged parties to advance the interests of his various clients, at 19 Gramercy Park. He looked a bit like a comfortably retired Edwardian bookie in London of the 1890s, with enough knowingness in his glance to deliver "fair warning" to the unwary. Though he publicly prided himself on never have taken a dime from either Howard Hughes or the Kennedys, Ben Sr. certainly milked big clients like General Motors of plenty of moolah, a satisfactory chunk of which he left to Ben.

Ben Jr. detailed his somewhat raffish and caddish youth in his 1991 memoir, Lost Property, but I had already known for almost a decade the tastes that he listed on the first page and that endeared me to him: "My favorite autobiographers in this century are Vladimir Nabokov, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin." A paragraph later he cited "my friend Edward Said," whose savage essay "Michael Walzer's 'Exodus and Revolution' – a Canaanite Reading," Ben had published in Grand Street in 1986. There was no other cultural periodical at that time that would have given the finger so vigorously to polite New York intellectual opinion.  The finger could be prankish. In January of 1989 he faxed me his offer – which I promptly published in The Nation -- on behalf of himself, me and others, to Marty Peretz….

You want to know what Ben wrote to Peretz? My full tribute to Ben is in our latest newsletter, along with wonderful  pieces about Ben from JoAnn Wypijewski and Daniel Wolff. And also in this newsletter, hot off the presses: Part two of Jeffrey St Clair's superb, path-breaking investigation of how BP and the Obama administration have been joined at the hip in the creation and handling of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Find out here how Obama and Interior Sec. Ken Salazar put a top BP exec in charge of deep sea drilling in the Gulf.

How much does it cost to be driven past a corrupt border patrol agent at an official port of entry to the U.S. from Mexico? Frank Bardacke reports from Watsonville on the real border-crossing economy.
 


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[ALOCHONA] SC clears way for publication of Amar Desh



SC clears way for publication of Amar Desh
 
 
 
 
 


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dhaka to expedite transit infrastructure for Delhi



Dear alochoks,

Please read this article:

http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/07/19/news0714.htm

I have serious doubts about Mujibs daughter's intellectual capability to run Bangladesh or the Dictator's (Zia's) wife and children. When will the people of Bangladesh will wake up to the reality?




--- On Sat, 17/7/10, kg <kgazi@cox.net> wrote:

From: kg <kgazi@cox.net>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dhaka to expedite transit infrastructure for Delhi
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 17 July, 2010, 3:55

 

Dhaka has NO CONCERN to improve transport infrastructure of Bangladesh, after all BAD roads & systems HELPS govt to oppress the people, and make BIG bags of corruption money, BUT,

govt is ready,set,go, to "expedite" transit infras for DELHI !!
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To answer the quesions:

* what is the construction cost?
- who cares, there is enough money in BD FOREX reserves, stolen from BD people's govt revenue, and foreign aid loans.

* how are these costs being funded and shared?
- shared? India is our supreme power, India orders, BD delivers.

* what income benefit do we get from our agreement?
- we get Indian movies, open border smuggling, Indian trash drugs, skinny Indian cattle during Korbani, and nice vacation trips to India for BD ministers.

* what are the security arrangements to ensure that the already steady flow of Indian goods illegally into the country will not increase threatening local industry and jobs?
- well, our local industries have been so badly affected by Indian manipulation of trade and duties, that we are suffering from SHORTAGE of food, goods, and basic needs. We are starving for poultry, eggs, milk, bread, onions, sugar, electricity, and even water.

So we INVITE India to eventually "become the BRAHMIN" and take over all our (country) industry COMPLETELY, so that our "local" PRODUCE will be Indian!! We call this 'digital connectivity' because they will make all kinds of nice websites for us! And if there is any problem we will blame 1971 war crimes.

* do we have any agreements on borders and water sharing to show for our participation?
- yes, yes. We agreed to send 50 ministers on annual trips from BD to India with 100 MP +family delegations each time, to visit various Indian sightseeing trips. Starting with Mumbai.

* how much local labour will be used vs Indian?
- our local labor we send to Dubai, so we dont have any local labor. So India will send their labor to Dhaka. Indian labor will be 'local labor' (smile).




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Re: [ALOCHONA] New york Times - Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China



Dear Alochoks,

We do not neet to worry (or gloat) about overtaking China. Please read this:

http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/07/19/news0714.htm

The above article tells us how India has a master plan to subjugate Bangladesh as a surrogate state.  When will the children or Mujib and Zia stop playing with the future of Bangladesh?  When the primeminister of Bangladesh return from he visit to India she boldly stated that the Indian Government has given her assurance that India will not take any decision that is detrimental to Bangladesh.

If this is so then why do we bother with having an Army, Navy and Air force? It is about time we civil soceity wake up and take some interest in the future of Bangladesh and where it is heading under the rule of Begums. There is still time we can do something about this - this is NOT a call for armed struggle but to exercise the muscle between our ears and get organised.

Many thanks.

--- On Sat, 17/7/10, Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] New york Times - Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China
To:
Date: Saturday, 17 July, 2010, 17:19

 

July 16, 2010

Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China

By VIKAS BAJAJ

New York Times

http://www.nytimes. com/2010/ 07/17/business/ global/17textile .html?_r= 1&hp=&pagewanted=print

 

GAZIPUR, Bangladesh — The eight-lane highway leading from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, narrows repeatedly as it approaches this town about 30 miles north, eventually depositing cars onto a muddy, potholed lane bordered by mangroves and small shops.

 

But this is no mere rural backwater. It is the sort of place to which foreign manufacturers may increasingly turn, if the rising wage demands of factory workers in China prompt companies to seek new pools of cheap labor elsewhere.

 

Already, in factories behind steel gates and tall concrete walls, tens of thousands of workers, most of them women, spend their days stitching T-shirts, pants and sweaters for Wal-Mart, H&M, Zara and other Western retailers and brands.

 

One of the Bangladeshi companies here, the DBL Group, employs 9,000 people making T-shirts and other knitwear. Business has been so good that the company is finishing a new 10-story building with open floors the size of soccer fields, planted with row after row of sewing machines.

 

"Our family needed the money, so we came here," said Maasuda Akthar, a 21-year-old sewing machine operator for DBL.

 

As costs have risen in China, long the world's shop floor, it is slowly losing work to countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia — at least for cheaper, labor-intensive goods like casual clothes, toys and simple electronics that do not necessarily require literate workers and can tolerate unreliable transportation systems and electrical grids.

 

Li & Fung, a Hong Kong company that handles sourcing and apparel manufacturing for companies like Wal-Mart and Liz Claiborne, reported that its production in Bangladesh jumped 20 percent last year, while China, its biggest supplier, slid 5 percent.

 

"Bangladesh is getting very competitive," William Fung, Li & Fung's group managing director, told analysts in March.

 

The flow of jobs to poorer countries like Bangladesh started even before recent labor unrest in China led to big pay raises for many factory workers there — and before changes in Beijing's currency policy that could also raise the costs of Chinese exports. Now, though, economists expect the migration of China's low-paying jobs to accelerate.

 

And while workers in Bangladesh and other developing countries are demanding higher pay, too — leading to a clash between police and protesters earlier this week in a garment hub outside Dhaka — they still earn much less than Chinese factory workers.

 

Bangladesh, for instance, has the lowest garment wages in the world, according to labor rights advocates. Ms. Akthar, who is relatively well paid by local standards, earns about $64 a month. That compares to minimum wages in China's coastal industrial provinces ranging from $117 to $147 a month.

 

"The Chinese firms that are beginning to get into trouble are producing textiles, rubber footwear and things like that," said Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California. "And there are lots of countries in South Asia and East Asia and in Central America that would like to fill this space."

 

But Bangladesh has its own challenges to overcome.

 

China's combination of a vast population of migrant workers, many with at least elementary school educations, along with modern roads, railways and power grids in its industrial provinces, has bestowed it with manufacturing capabilities that countries like Bangladesh cannot offer. Beijing also provides low-cost loans and other incentives to its industries that other countries have trouble matching for theirs.

 

Most of Bangladesh, meanwhile, suffers blackouts six to seven hours a day because it has not invested enough in power plants and natural gas fields — deficiencies that the government is working on but that will not be eliminated quickly.

 

The country has a literacy rate of only 55 percent — compared with more than 92 percent in China. As a result, workers in this country are only one-fourth as productive as the Chinese in making shirts, jackets and other woven clothes, according to a report by the Center for Policy Dialogue, an independent research organization based in Dhaka.

 

Despite its handicaps, Bangladesh nearly doubled garment exports from 2004 to 2009. And the industry now employs about three million people, more than any other industrial segment in this largely agrarian country of 160 million. From June through November last year, garment exports accounted for more than 80 percent of the country's total exports of $7.1 billion.

 

Among developing countries, Bangladesh is the third-biggest exporter of clothing after mainland China, which exported $120 billion in 2008, and Turkey, a distant No. 2, according to the World Trade Organization.

 

And with nearly 70 million people of working age, Bangladesh could probably absorb many more of China's 20 million garment industry jobs.

 

Still, some of the changes in China could prove to be mixed blessings for Bangladesh. If China allows its currency, the renminbi, to trade more freely, Bangladeshi exports would become more competitive.

 

But a stronger renminbi could also hurt Bangladesh by raising the price of machinery and fabric imported from China, its biggest supplier, said Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, an assistant professor of economics at the Yale School of Management. Over time, Bangladesh could buy more from other countries, like India, but those countries first would need to build up significant production capacity.

 

And as in China, workers in Bangladesh have started demanding higher pay. In recent weeks, labor protests have periodically shut down garment factories as thousands of workers battled police in Dhaka and other garment hubs like Gazipur. Late last month, police clashed with about 15,000 protesters on a busy Dhaka street lined with garment factories. In one exchange, a clutch of protesters lobbed bricks at police officers from an alley opposite the Outright Fashion factory, before fleeing as the officers charged at them with batons, tear gas canisters and the hot, colored water used to both disperse protesters and mark them for later identification.

 

Garment workers are demanding a 200 percent increase in the minimum wage, to 5,000 taka (about $71) a month — which is how much workers with several years of experience now earn. The government, which plans to announce a new minimum wage soon, last increased it in 2006, to 1,662.50 taka (about $24). Since then, inflation has been as high as 9.9 percent a year.

 

"Most garment workers live in slum areas where one room costs 2,000 to 3,000 taka," said Mushrefa Mishu, president of the Garment Workers' Unity Forum, an association that claims to represent more than 60,000 members.

 

Labor leaders want the government to make it easier for workers to form unions — very few factories are unionized today — and to require higher safety standards and better working conditions.

 

In January, H&M, Wal-Mart, Gap, Tesco and other Western clothing buyers asked the Bangladeshi government to raise the minimum wage and reset it every year, although the group did not specify what the wage should be. A spokeswoman for H&M, Malin Bjorne, said the company was willing to pay more for clothing to help support higher wages. It is unclear whether other companies would do the same.

 

But factory owners here argue that a big increase in wages would make them uncompetitive against Vietnam and other big producers, which have higher labor costs but also have better infrastructure and are more efficient producers. If that happened, Bangladesh's China opportunity could prove all too fleeting, they say.

 

"If it's 5,000 taka, I would close all my factories," said Anisul Huq, a former head of the Bangladeshi garment industry's trade group and a factory owner whose customers include H&M and Wal-Mart. "Even if it's 3,000 taka, lots of factories will close within three or four months."

 



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[ALOCHONA] Hindu-Muslim understanding



From Hindu Muslim-Baiter to Inter-Faith Activist

By Yoginder Sikand

Lucknow-based Swami Lakshmi is not, as his last name might suggest, an orthodox Brahminical priest. He heads the 'Hindu-Muslim Unity Front', dedicated to promoting harmony between Muslims and Hindus. His way of promoting the cause is somewhat unique: exploring and highlighting what he regards as the striking similarities between Quranic Islam and the Vedas, or what he prefers to call Sanatan Vaidik Dharm or the 'Eternal Vedic Law'.

I met with the swami earlier this year, at a conference in Delhi. Dressed in the ochre robes of a sadhu, he quoted liberally from the Quran and the Vedas to stress the claim of the universality of religion and to counter exclusivist understandings of each of them. The audience, mixed in terms of religious composition, heard him in careful silence, and when he was over, burst into hearty applause.

The swami was kind enough to grant me an interview. Keen to further understand his approach to promoting Hindu-Muslim dialogue, I asked him to begin by telling me about himself and how he had got so involved in dialogue work, which was now his major preoccupation.

He was born in 1952 in a village in the Kanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, the swami began, where he received his basic education, after which he shifted to Allahabad, where worked for a while as a contractor. But, increasingly, he began tiring of the world. 'I wanted to live for God', he said. It was at this time that he became an activist—though not a formal member—of the RSS and the VHP. As a result of this association with hardliner, vociferously anti-Muslim outfits, over time hatred for Muslims became almost a creed for him. 'In government schools we were taught that Muslims came to India as invaders, that they slaughtered Hindus and destroyed their temples. Being active in the work of the RSS and VHP, my hatred for Muslims and Islam was further magnified,' he went on. 'It was as if my religion demanded that I should hate Muslims and their faith.' This led him on to write a polemical treatise against Islam, titled 'The History of Islamic Terrorism', wherein he claimed that not just India, but, in fact, the entire world, was faced with what he had termed as the 'peril of Islam'. The book was published by a pro-RSS publishing house, and was released, in 2002, by none other than the Shiv Sena supreme Bal Thackeray, known for his venom-spewing anti-Muslim rhetoric.

At that time a hardened Muslim-hater, the swami experienced a sudden change of heart shortly after he penned his vitriolic anti-Islamic treatise. 'At around this time,' he explained, 'a number of Muslim clerics, particularly leading ulema of the Deoband school, had begun issuing statements and fatwas condemning terrorism, even in the name of Islam, and insisting that it had no place whatsoever in Islam,' he elaborated. 'This made me curious to understand Islam not from Hindutva writings, which were obviously heavily biased, but through the Quran itself and through the writings of Muslim scholars.' The swami began researching Islam from its own original sources. In a short while, he discovered, much to his surprise, that what the Quran actually taught, particularly about the doctrine of jihad, was, if correctly understood, quite the opposite of what he had earlier thought it did. The Quran was not the treatise on terror that he had been led to believe and that he had accused it of being in his book. He had erred, he said, by ignoring the explanations of jihad given by numerous qualified Islamic scholars and by taking Quranic verses related to jihad out of their contexts or culling just certain portions of these verses while ignoring others (a crime radical Islamists, too, are guilty of), which had twisted their intended meaning completely.

To properly understand the issue of jihad—which remains one of the key causes of deep-rooted negative stereotypes about Islam among many non-Muslims—the swami began to delve into the history of the Prophet Muhammad. 'I read his biography, for only in that way could I appreciate the question of jihad in its proper context,' he went on. 'It soon dawned on me that what I had earlier written about the Prophet was completely untrue. To repent for what I had done, I decided to write a second book, refuting what I had earlier written, and apologizing to God, to the Prophet and to Muslims in general, for my previous book, which I had completely disassociated from. In the new book I issued this apology very explicitly, and clearly mentioned that my earlier book should be treated as completely null and void.' The new book, in Hindi, titled Islam: Atank Ya Adarsh? ('Islam: Terror or Role Model?' was published earlier this year. It argues, contrary to popular non-Muslim perception, that Islam opposes terrorism and that, in fact, it is a model religion for humanity. An English version of the book is to be out soon.

I asked the swami to tell me more about the vision behind his 'Hindu-Muslim Unity Front'. 'We want to bring Hindus and Muslims closer to each other, to bridge the gulf that divides them,' he replied. The swami and his small band of disciples have organised numerous public rallies for this cause, and regularly attend seminars and activist meetings across the country, organized by Hindu, Muslim as well as secular groups, propagating the same simple message: of monotheism and righteous belief and conduct as the basis for human, including Hindu-Muslim, unity. This basic point, he says, is something that people of different faiths and communities can easily agree on. It is, or, rather can be, he argues, the foundation for a common consensus between Muslims and Hindus. He lauds the Quranic concept of unsullied monotheism, and claims that, if properly understood, the Vedas, too, talk of just one God and vehemently oppose polytheism, idolatry and the worship of avatars and other human beings, which he explains as a later accretion that have nothing to do with true Sanatan Vaidik Dharm.

Is this not what some neo-Hindu groups such as the Arya Samaj also claim? I asked the swami. 'The Arya Samaj does talk of monotheism, and opposes idolatry', he answered, 'but its founder, Dayanand Saraswati, was vehemently opposed to Islam and Muslims.' 'On the other hand,' he explained, 'our approach is based on love and unity, seeking to bring Hindus and Muslims together and to assert the claim that a true Sanatani is actually also a true Muslim, in the real sense of the term as someone who has truly submitted to God.'

 



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[ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country

Dear Alochok Q Rahman

Certainly 'natural migration due to limited resources' is a factor. But it is only one factor amongst many. The phrase certainly does not address any of the points I have mentioned - unless of course we can follow our politcians and blame limited resources for all the rot in our country.

As for our limited resources - we are neither managing our resources nor minimising our population. We are in fact, literally screwing ourselves into the ground. And instead of tackling our real problems head on we are rather proud that we can fulfill the world's requirements for unskilled labour.

Many, many have tried to return only to be kicked out again because the medicore and the corrupt make it impossible for them to survive in Bangladesh - let alone flourish.

Please don't let politicians mitigate our incompetence, mismanagement and corruption by blaming 'limited resources'.

In the meantime our governments are busy exporting our problems.

And the problem is that we don't have that much time. The link between 2nd / 3rd generation emigants and the motherland is tenuous at best. Another two decades of this rotten condition and you can kiss any hope of a reverse brain drain goodbye.

Though 'brain drain' has never been an issue for Bangladesh. There are enough brains in the drains to meet all our requirements.

Best wishes

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait


--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, qrahman@... wrote:
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> Dear Alochoks,
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> This is a "Natural flow" of migration. Dr. Zafar Iqbals are very few among us. Most of us want to live our dreams and often it does not include Bangladesh. Geographically we are a tiny nation with a huge population. Therefore, it is not all bad if some of us make a life outside. We can serve our country without physically staying in Bangladesh.
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> I have seen some of my friends coming back to Bangladesh after many years. They have international level skills and now benefits offered by some companies are much better than what was available 20 years ago. Therefore, naturally they are heading back home. According to a recent BBC report, 87% of all migrants always looking for a good excuse to come back.
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> If (God willing) our future government works hard to bring back talents of future, I am sure they will be willing to make some sacrifices for our country. In the mean time, let them establish ourselves all over the globe. I do not see anything wrong with it.
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> Peace.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohd. Haque <haquetm83@...>
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 9:52 pm
> Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
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> Dear Alochoks,
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> If we connect the jergon - best brains are not allowed to stay in the country or they are settled in outside. When I do believe this, yet I am frustrated as I notice that all these best brains serving the best economies and societies or humanities, there contributions do not appears as such.
> If you go to a book shelf in - say Dubai or Kuala Lumpur or in London or New York how many titles you see authored by our best brains settled and enjoyed their lives in west. Please do not bring in Tommy Mian or Monica Ali as reference.
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> Would appreciate if you can start a healthy debate on my frustration.
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> --- On Fri, 9/7/10, ezajur <Ezajur@...> wrote:
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> From: ezajur <Ezajur@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 12:09 AM
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>
>
> They are happy because most of them have given up on having higher expectations of Bangladesh. As with many things in life - one can be happier if one cares less. This disengagement is NOT from world trends. They want to go out and meet world trends head on. Their disengagement is from trends in Bangladesh.
>
> They want to leave the country not because of ignorance of the outside world but because of their knowledge of the world inside Bangladesh.
>
> You could not last 5 minutes in an argument with a youngster determined to build a life abroad. And you needn't worry. As a nation we don't want or encourage young talent to stay. Which is why no one gives a damn that every year thousands of our best young people leave.
>
> This is the Bangladesh created by the older generation who support the crimes and lies of AL and BNP. And now this same generation blames the younger generation. No wonder our youth have disengaged.
>
> Political activists aren't worth the spit of our young people. Our young people go abroad and lead more productive lives in safer environments with a better ethical setting.
>
> Parents and grandparents don't encourage their kids to return even if it breaks their hearts.
>
> Because of our politics.
>
> Even all the AL who faint at the sight of Joy know that what they like about Joy would not be there if Joy had spent his life in Bangladesh mixing in AL circles. Dhekthe hobeh na kar nathi? Ji na. Dhekthe hobeh kuthai manush hoilo.
>
> 42% want to leave their country - its a good sign. It indirectly shows the rejection of the Bangladesh of AL and BNP.
>
> Even AL and BNP activists abroad don't return to Bangladesh when their party wins power!
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@> wrote:
> >
> > ------ Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Javed Ahmad
> >
> > They are 'happy' because they are not aware of many of the world trends
> > and events that is taking shape and how they might affect them. And they
> > 'want to leave the country' because they do not know what 'freedom' means as
> > the world is gradually turning into a prison. Our present young generation
> > are the believers of "ignorance is bliss". Soon they would come to know the
> > truth and will be totally clue less. Perhaps then they would come to
> > understand that this life is not a bed of roses.
> >
> > --- On *Sun, 6/13/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@>* wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@>
> > Subject: Re: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
> > To:
> > Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 2:28 AM
> >
> >
> > *Most youths are happy, but half of them want to go abroad*
> >
> > *British Council* survey reveals
> >
> > Eighty eight per cent of young people in Bangladesh are either happy or very
> > happy while 42 per cent young people want to go abroad, said a survey report
> > conducted by the British Council.
> >
> > On the findings of the study, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said: "The total
> > number of young people in Bangladesh is around 55 million. Among this 88 per
> > cent are happy or very happy while 1.6 per cent are unhappy. It's a positive
> > sign for our country. As the young generation is happy they can bring a
> > better future for the country."
> >
> > She said 76.5 per cent of youth believe women should play a greater role in
> > decision making affecting their community while 73 per cent of them own a
> > mobile phone. Both are good signs as we are going on our way of fulfilling
> > Vision 2021, she added.
> >
> > The foreign minister said this while speaking at the launching ceremony of
> > the survey report titled "Bangladesh: The Next Generation" at a city hotel
> > on Saturday.
> >
> > British High Commissioner Stephen Evans said: "This survey demonstrates the
> > need and opportunities offered by mobilising one of the Bangladesh's
> > greatest assets--the 55 million young people between the ages of 15 and 30
> > and pointed to the significance of active citizenship in building
> > communities and improving livelihood to take Bangladesh forward."
> >
> > British Council Director Charles Nuttall OBE recognised the transformational
> > power of young Bangladeshis and added: "We hope the report will promote
> > discussion on how the immense social and human capital that Bangladeshi
> > youth have to offer can be harnessed."
> >
> > The survey involved hour long interviews with 2,167 males and females aged
> > between 15 and 30, which the British Council claims were representatives of
> > the demographics of young people in Bangladesh.
> >
> > The survey found that young people had an overall positive view of the
> > country's progress - with 79 percent believing that "the country is heading
> > in the right direction". However, 60 percent of the interviewees said that
> > they felt that corruption will or may get worse in the next five years.
> >
> > They ranked bribery as the second most important factor, next to education,
> > in securing a job- with 12 percent believing it to be the major factor.
> >
> > It also found that only 15 percent thought that student politics is a good
> > thing. Another 36 percent said student politics has a detrimental effect on
> > educational institutions.
> >
> > http://fe-bd.com/more.php?news_id=102985&date=2010-06-13
> >
> > On 6/13/10, Isha Khan
> > <bdmailer@<http://mc/compose?to=bdmailer@>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > *British Council* survey on bangladesh youth
> > >
> > > http://www.dailyjanakantha.com/news_view.php?nc=15&dd=2010-06-13&ni=21648
> > >
> >
>


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[ALOCHONA] Re: Youths, middle-income group, female voters ended Mohiuddin era:Star survey

Someone recently said that the recent mayoral el;ection in Chittagong demonstrates that democracy is safe under Hasina.

Democracy is categorically not safe in Bangladesh under the Nethri system.

Unless of course the definition of demcracy is, in its entirety, simply that he who get the most votes wins.

Democracy is deeper and broader than most political activists understand.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Chittagong City Corporation Election
>
> *Youths, middle-income group, female voters ended Mohiuddin era : daily Star
> survey
> *
>
>
> Photo from left: ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, M Manjur Alam and e-voitng. Graph
> Clockwise: 1. Overall, how would you describe the election environment? 2.
> What is the post-election situation now? 3. In the race of CCC, who did you
> vote? 4. Overall, do you think that Bangladesh is headed in the right
> direction or do you think that they are off on the wrong track? 5. Were you
> facilitated by the candidate to go to the center on the election? 6. Since
> the elections were scheduled, has any one offered you a gift, a favor, food,
> or money to try to convince you to vote for them?
>
> ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, the longest serving mayor of Chittagong who finally
> lost the election to BNP-backed candidate M Manjur Alam, got less support
> from the youths, middle-income group and female voters, a survey revealed.
> Mohiddin's rift with his party, his overconfident attitude and 'misconduct',
> lack of support from minority voters and less contact with the voters were
> quoted by respondents as some of the reasons for his defeat. The survey was
> conducted by Nielsen Bangladesh following the Chittagong City Corporation
> (CCC) election.
>
> Respondents said they voted against Mohiuddin as they were tired of his long
> 'autocratic' tenure and wanted a change. He also did not approach the women
> voters adequately. On the other hand, the survey found that Manjur Alam won
> because of his good behaviour, politeness and image as an honest person. His
> less attacking campaign against his opponent and his approach to all
> irrespective of gender and religion also made him the winner.
>
> Target respondents
> To ensure that the sample properly represents all possible categories,
> respondents from the following groups were extracted:
>
> Area: 41 wards
> Gender: Male and female
> Age group: Voters (age 18 years and above)
> Interview at household level or pre-appointed place of the voters
>
> Polling environment
>
> Almost all the voters (95 percent) viewed that the Chittagong City
> Corporation election was held peacefully, free and fair. They further
> reported that they did not encounter any problems, difficulties or
> irregularities. None of the voters felt "insecure" as such. However, only 3
> percent of the voters said that "the wait was too long".
>
> Decision about the candidate
>
> Although there was backing from the political parties, but more than
> one-third (38 percent) of the voters took decision about the candidate just
> before the polling started -- within last 48 hours! The last moment decision
> was extremely critical for the candidate. Females (42 percent) were the ones
> who took last minute decision more compared to males (35 percent). Across
> age groups, 40 percent of the young voters (19-25 years) took the voting
> decision within last two days, while 36 percent of the senior group
> (55+years) doing the same.
>
> Nearly another one third of the voters (31 percent) decided during the
> campaign i.e. after the announcement on candidates made by Bangladesh
> Election Commission (BEC). Only 19 percent were loyal to political party
> decision and that inherits in their family, such loyalty was higher among
> males (19 percent) compared to females (15 percent). Therefore, the personal
> quality of the candidate was extremely crucial to the voters during this CCC
> mayoral election.
>
> Corruption by the candidates
>
> Almost all the voters (95 percent) reported that they haven't received any
> gift, food, or money from the candidate or their workers trying to convince
> them to vote for them. However, 4 percent of the voters said that "received
> something".
>
> Similarly 92 percent of the voters said that the candidates or political
> party did not facilitate them going to the polling centre. But 8 percent of
> the voters have received facilities in some form from the candidate or his
> party for going to the polling station. Considering the low percentile of
> such incidence it can be concluded that, overall the election was free from
> the candidate or his party for going to the polling station. Considering the
> low percentile of such incidence it can be concluded that, overall the
> election was free from corruption, as such to the voters.
>
> Post-election environment
>
> Although opposition party backed candidate won the election, majority of the
> voters (78 percent) termed the post election environment as "peaceful".
> However, 16 percent were in tension or anxiety.
>
> People appreciated the gesture of the ruling party in accepting the election
> result and congratulating the opposition winning candidate. The feelings
> were similar irrespective to religion, age or gender.
>
> Winning candidate
>
> The respondents were asked directly reveal the name of the candidate they
> had voted for. One third of them (33 percent) refused to disclose their
> choice. However, 42 percent of the voters spontaneously said they have cast
> their votes to Manjur Alam, while 25 percent reported that they have voted
> for Mohiuddin Chowdhury.
>
> Across income groups, Manjur was preferred and voted by people of all income
> brackets, while more by the lower income population. He got 45 percent vote
> of the population group having income less than BDT5,000, while Mohiuddin
> got only 24 percent vote from this group.
>
> Across gender and age groups, Manjur was also preferred more by all age
> groups and irrespective of genders. Among the Muslim's 45 percent preferred
> Manjur as against only 22 percent preferred Mohiuddin while among the Hindu
> voters, 45 percent voted for Mohiuddin, while 20 percent voted for Manjur.
>
> Chittagong dwellers. Incidentally, there was heavy rain during the polling
> day which also triggered to swing voters toward him,
>
> Finally people wanted "change".
>
> Qualitative reasons for winning and losing
>
> Nielsen researchers interviewed in-depth a large number of voters
> irrespective of areas, gender, income and occupation to understand the
> underlying factors for losing the poll by Mohiuddin and winning by Manjur.
> The main reasons were as follows:
>
> ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury: The main reasons for him to collapse were -
>
> Less support from young and middle income and female voters,
>
> Detached from his party (central and local),
>
> Overconfidence and misconduct,
>
> Ignoring local problems (i.e. waterlogging, traffic congestion etc.),
>
> Less support from minority voters
>
> Gender discrimination to some extent
>
> In addition, since there was a three-day holiday [Thursday (polling day) and
> weekly holidays Friday and Saturday] -- most of the floating voters i.e.
> coming from other districts left Chittagong also contributed to his failure.
>
>
> People were tired of his long autocratic tenure and opted for a change.
>
> Manjur Alam: The main reasons for him to win were -Good behaviour, Polite
> and soft spoken,
>
> Perceived as honest (it may be recalled that he worked as acting mayor
> during military-backed caretaker government; Mohiuddin was in jail at that
> time), and people found him honest,
>
> Less attacking to opponent during the campaign
>
> His campaign was above any gender or religious discrimination
>
> Waterlogging is a major crisis in the CCC area. It was a long demand for
>
> e-Voting
>
> First time introduced e-voting in Jamal Khan Road (Ward # 21) was highly
> accepted by 94 percent of the voters. Nearly 44 percent of the voters also
> suggested introducing this through out the country. However, people
> suggested for wider campaign about the process, techniques etc so that
> elderly and less literate voters get proper knowledge about using the
> e-voting machine.
>
> Perception about the government
>
> The poll was held after one and half years of the government in power.
> Around three-fourth of the voters (73 percent) perceived that the country is
> in the right track. However, 13 percent viewed as "wrong track". The
> respondents had more or less similar views irrespective to religion, gender
> or age groups.
>
> Interestingly, the view is also similar with respect to the candidate they
> have voted for. Majority of the respondents who have voted for Manjur (72
> percent) also feels that the country is going into the right direction,
> similar to those who have voted for Mohiuddin (79 percent).
>
> Satisfaction on government performance:
>
> Similarly, 70 percent of the voters are satisfied with the performance of
> the government; as against 18 percent of the dissatisfied voters.
>
> Interestingly, majority of the voters who supported opposition-backed
> candidate also have similar views (64 percent).
>
> Concluding remarks
>
> People have shown full confidence in Bangladesh Election Commission (BEC).
> The election was free and fair and it was acceptable to almost all the
> voters. They have not accepted any statement or opinion about the quality of
> the election, in general, raised by any political party or candidate after
> the election. The election result matches with the opinion poll findings.
>
> Overall, the electronic voting (e-voting) system was accepted among the
> voters. However, some of them suggested for more campaign about the
> techniques and process of e-voting for wider acceptance. It will help
> increasing awareness and knowledge using the e-voting machine effectively.
>
> Finally, it is perceived by majority of the voters that the country is in
> the right track and the citizens are satisfied with the performance of the
> government.
>
> Study methodology
>
> The poll was quantitative in nature. A total of around 2,546 eligible
> voters/respondents were interviewed, covering all the wards under Chittagong
> City Corporation. In each ward, there are a number of mahallas, developed by
> Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. From each ward, two mahallas were selected
> randomly. These mohallas were considered as primary sampling units
> (PSUs)/clusters.
>
> Respondents profile
>
> A total of 2,546 respondents were interviewed under the scope of the study
> from 41 wards of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC). Fifty percent of the
> respondents were male while rest 50 percent were females.
>
> Nearly 60 percent of the respondents were from the age bracket 25-45. While
> nearly one fifth (19 percent) were young voters within the age of 19-25
> years.
>
> As expected, majority of the respondents were Muslim (85 percent) while
> around 14 percent were Hindu. Christian and Buddhists were 1 percent.
> http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=146761
>


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[ALOCHONA] Re: How come?




Yes, Kaium, you are right, unfortunately,


Every single member of that family is  corrupt  II

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2010/7/18 Kaiumuzzaman Mollah <kaium91@yahoo.com>

Every single member of a family  corrupted?

 

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খালেদার মায়ের এনজিও পল্লীশ্রী অবৈধ জমিতে! উম্মুল ওয়ারা সুইটি, দিনাজপুর থেকে ফিরেঅর্পিত সম্পত্তি অবৈধভাবে চিরস্থায়ী বন্দোবস্ত নিয়ে সেখানে ভবন তুলে এবং একটি সরকারি ভবন দখল করে সাবেক প্রধানমন্ত্রী বেগম খালেদা জিয়ার মা তৈয়বা মজুমদারের এনজিও পল্লীশ্রীর কার্যক্রম চলছে। দিনাজপুর শহরের প্রাণকেন্দ্র বালুবাড়ী মৌজায় সাড়ে ৩৮ শতাংশ জমিসহ দোতলা বাড়ির পুরোটাই এখন পল্লীশ্রীর দখলে। এ ক্ষেত্রে শুধু আইনই লঙ্ঘন করা হয়নি, সরকারের রাজস্ব ক্ষতিও করা হয়েছে অন্তত ১৩ কোটি টাকার।
১৯৯৩ সালে প্রথমবার বিএনপি সরকার ক্ষমতায় থাকাকালে শুরু হয় এনজিওর নামে এই দখলপ্রক্রিয়া। সর্বশেষ বিগত চারদলীয় জোট সরকারের শাসনামলে আইন লঙ্ঘন করে চিরস্থায়ী বরাদ্দের মধ্য দিয়ে দখলপ্রক্রিয়া চূড়ান্ত হয়।
দিনাজপুরের বালুবাড়ী এলাকায় গিয়ে স্থানীয় বাসিন্দাদের সঙ্গে কথা বলে এবং জেলা প্রশাসন ও ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়ে খোঁজখবর নিয়ে এসব তথ্য জানা গেছে।
এলাকার বাসিন্দা আফসার উদ্দিন বলেন, তৈয়বা মজুমদার প্রথমে একসনা লিজের মাধ্যমে ২৫ শতাংশ জমি দখলে নিয়ে কাজ শুরু করেন। নিয়ম ভঙ্গ করে ভবনও তৈরি করেন। শুধু তাই নয়, বাউন্ডারির অবশিষ্ট ছয় শতক জমির মধ্যে অবস্থিত সরকারি ভবনে বসবাসকারী ভূমিহীন মুক্তিযোদ্ধা ইব্রাহিমকে ২০০৪ সালের ১০ আগস্ট জোর করে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। ইব্রাহিম এর আগে জেলা প্রশাসকের কাছ থেকে ১৫ আগস্ট পর্যন্ত সময় নিয়ে আসেন। কিন্তু তাতেও কাজ হয়নি। পরে তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকারের সময় ২০০৭ সালের ১৩ জুলাই ইব্রাহিম এ বিষয়ে সংবাদ সম্মেলন করেন।
এলাকাবাসী জানায়, বিএনপি চেয়ারপারসন খালেদা জিয়ার মায়ের এনজিও পল্লীশ্রীকে ক্ষমতার অপব্যবহার করে এই অর্পিত সম্পত্তি বরাদ্দ দেওয়া হয়েছে। ২০০৬ সালের ১১ অক্টোবর মাত্র এক দিনে তৎকালীন প্রতিমন্ত্রী, উপমন্ত্রীসহ মন্ত্রণালয়ের পাঁচ ঊর্ধ্বতন কর্মকর্তা এই বরাদ্দপত্র অনুমোদনে স্বাক্ষর করেন।
অথচ ২০০১ সালে অর্পিত সম্পত্তি প্রত্যর্পণ আইন জাতীয় সংসদে পাস হওয়ার পর এই ধরনের সম্পত্তি কাউকে চিরস্থায়ী বরাদ্দ দেওয়া সম্পূর্ণভাবে নিষিদ্ধ।
ভূমিমন্ত্রী রেজাউল করিম হীরা বলেন, এ ব্যাপারে তদন্ত করা হবে। এভাবে অর্পিত সম্পত্তি চিরস্থায়ীভাবে বরাদ্দ দেওয়ার কোনো বিধান নেই। বিগত বিএনপি সরকার ও বিএনপি-জামায়াত জোট সরকারের সময়ে এ ধরনের অনেক ঘটনা ঘটেছে। বর্তমান সরকার এসব অর্পিত সম্পত্তির বিষয়ে তালিকা তৈরি করছে। কেউ অবৈধভাবে অর্পিত সম্পত্তি দখল করে থাকলে সে ব্যাপারে তদন্ত সাপেক্ষে ব্যবস্থা নেওয়া হবে। যেহেতু বিষয়টি সাবেক প্রধানমন্ত্রীর পরিবারের, তাই এটি অনেক বেশি সতর্কতার সঙ্গে তদন্ত করা হবে।
দিনাজপুরের সাংস্কৃতিক সংগঠক হাফিজুল ইসলাম জেমী বিষয়টির আইনগত সমাধান দাবি করে বলেন, ক্ষমতার অপব্যবহার করে দেশের শীর্ষস্থানীয় ব্যক্তিরা যদি এভাবে সরকারি সম্পত্তি দখল করেন তাহলে সাধারণ মানুষ হতাশায় ভোগে। যাঁরা দেশের আইনপ্রণেতা, তাঁদের কাছ থেকেই যদি অনিয়ম আর আইন ভঙ্গের ঘটনা ঘটে তাহলে দেশ কিভাবে চলবে?
দিনাজপুর জেলা প্রশাসন, ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয় ও সংশ্লিষ্ট নথি থেকে পাওয়া তথ্যমতে, দিনাজপুর শহরের প্রাণকেন্দ্র বালুবাড়ী মৌজার ৪৮৩ খতিয়ানের ৩৫১ দাগের সাড়ে ৩৮ শতাংশ ভূমি এবং এর ওপর অবস্থিত দ্বিতল বাড়ির মূল মালিক যতীন্দ্রমোহন গং দেশভাগের সময় ভারতে চলে গেলে এই সম্পত্তি অর্পিত সম্পত্তি হিসেবে তালিকাভুক্ত হয়। সরকারি প্রয়োজনে ১৯৪৮ সালের হুকুম আইনে এইচআর মামলামূলে এই বাড়িটি হুকুম দখল করে সরকারি দপ্তর স্থাপন করা হয়। তার পর থেকে পর্যায়ক্রমে বিভিন্ন সময়ে সরকারি কর্মকর্তাদের বাসভবন হিসেবে ব্যবহৃত হয়। দিনাজপুর জেলা প্রশাসনের একজন কর্মকর্তা নাম প্রকাশ না করার শর্তে জানান, এই জায়গাটি অর্পিত সম্পত্তি হিসেবে তালিকাভুক্ত হওয়ার পর খালেদা জিয়ার মা তৈয়বা মজুমদার তাঁর প্রতিষ্ঠিত এনজিও পল্লীশ্রীর নামে বন্দোবস্ত পাওয়ার জন্য চেষ্টা-তদবির শুরু করেন। খালেদা জিয়া প্রথম মেয়াদে প্রধানমন্ত্রী থাকাকালীন কিছুটা কৃতকার্য হন। প্রধানমন্ত্রীর ক্ষমতার প্রভাবকে ব্যবহার করে ১৯৯৩ সালে এ জমির ১০ শতাংশ পল্লীশ্রীর নামে একসনা বন্দোবস্ত পান। ওই কর্মকর্তা জানান, এরই মধ্যে একসনা লিজের নিয়ম ভঙ্গ করে ওই জমির ওপর তিনতলা ভবন নির্মাণ করা হয়।
জেলা প্রশাসন সূত্রে জানা গেছে, বিগত আওয়ামী লীগ সরকারের সময়ে ওই জমির বিষয়ে কোনো রকম প্রশাসনিক তৎপরতা দেখা যায়নি। ২০০১ সালের নির্বাচনের পর খালেদা জিয়া আবার ক্ষমতাসীন হলে তৈয়বা মজুমদার দ্বিতল বাড়িসহ পুরো সম্পত্তি দখলে নিতে ফের চেষ্টা-তদবির শুরু করেন। ২০০৪ সালের এপ্রিলে তিনি পল্লীশ্রীর নামে পুরো সম্পত্তি চিরস্থায়ীভাবে বন্দোবস্ত দেওয়ার জন্য জেলা প্রশাসকের কছে আবেদন করেন। পরে সেটা ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয় বরাবর পাঠানো হলে প্রত্যর্পণ আইন বলবৎ থাকায় স্থায়ী বন্দোবস্ত দেওয়া সম্ভব নয় বলে মন্ত্রণালয় থেকে জানিয়ে দেওয়া হয়। তবে একসনা বন্দোবস্তের বিষয়টি বিবেচনা করার মতামত দেওয়া হয়; যদিও প্রত্যর্পণ আইন বলবৎ থাকা অবস্থায় একসনা বন্দোবস্ত নিষিদ্ধ রয়েছে এবং ১৯৮৪ সালের রাষ্ট্রপতির ঘোষণার পর থেকেই নতুন লিজ দেওয়া বন্ধ রয়েছে।
এ-সংক্রান্ত নথি থেকে দেখা যায়, জেলা প্রশাসকের কার্যালয় থেকে ২০০৫ সালের ১৬ আগস্ট আবারও ওই সম্পত্তি পল্লীশ্রীকে স্থায়ী বন্দোবস্ত দেওয়ার জন্য ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়ে প্রস্তাব পাঠানো হয়। ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয় থেকে এবারও আইনের পরিপন্থী বিধায় স্থায়ী বন্দোবস্তের প্রস্তাব অনুমোদনযোগ্য নয় মর্মে জেলা প্রশাসককে জানিয়ে দেওয়া হয়। তৃতীয়বারের মতো প্রস্তাব দিয়েও কোনো কাজ না হওয়ায় সম্পত্তি গ্রাস করার উদ্দেশ্যে পল্লীশ্রী ভিন্ন পথ অবলম্বন করে জেলা প্রশাসকের শরণাপন্ন হয়।
সূত্রমতে, তৎকালীন জেলা প্রশাসক ২০০১ সালের প্রত্যর্পণ আইন লঙ্ঘন করে এই সম্পত্তি পল্লীশ্রীর অনুকূলে অধিগ্রহণের কার্যক্রম গ্রহণ করেন। জেলা প্রশাসক অধিগ্রহণ মামলা করেন এবং অধিগ্রহণের প্রস্তাব ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়ে পাঠিয়ে দেন।
কিন্তু ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়ের সংশ্লিষ্ট শাখার প্রশাসনিক কর্মকর্তা এবং সিনিয়র সহকারী সচিব নালিশি সম্পত্তি 'অধিগ্রহণযোগ্য' নয় মর্মে প্রস্তাব করেন। কিন্তু তাঁদের মতামতকে অগ্রাহ্য করে বেআইনিভাবে অধিগ্রহণের প্রস্তাব অনুমোদন করেন জোট সরকারের আশীর্বাদপুষ্ট উপসচিব (উন্নয়ন), যুগ্ম সচিব (উন্নয়ন), সচিব, ক্ষমতাধর উপমন্ত্রী এবং প্রতিমন্ত্রী। অধিগ্রহণের এই প্রস্তাবটি দ্রুতগতিতে অনুমোদিত হয়। মাত্র এক দিনেই (১১-১০-০৬ ইং) উপসচিব, যুগ্ম সচিব, সচিব, উপমন্ত্রী-প্রতিমন্ত্রী'_এই পাঁচটি স্তর পার হয়ে প্রস্তাবটি অনুমোদন লাভ করে। স্থাবর সম্পত্তি অধিগ্রহণ ম্যানুয়েলের ২৯ নম্বর অনুচ্ছেদ অনুযায়ী, বেসরকারি সংস্থার অধিগ্রহণ প্রস্তাবের ক্ষেত্রে সংশ্লিষ্ট প্রস্তাবটি জনস্বার্থে কি না, প্রস্তাবটি সংস্থার নিজস্ব জমিতে বাস্তবায়ন করা সম্ভব কি না, সংস্থা প্রস্তাবিত জমি ক্রয়ের উদ্যোগ গ্রহণ করে ব্যর্থ হয়েছে কি না; সামগ্রিক বিবেচনায় জমি অধিগ্রহণ অপরিহার্য কি না ইত্যাদি বিষয় বিবেচনা করার সুস্পষ্ট বিধান থাকলেও এ ক্ষেত্রে তা বিবেচনা করা হয়নি। উপরন্তু ওই দাগে সাড়ে ৩৮ শতাংশ জমিও অধিগ্রহণ প্রস্তাবে অন্তর্ভুক্ত করা হয়।
সূত্রমতে, দিনাজপুর শহরের প্রাণকেন্দ্রে অবস্থিত এই জমির বর্তমান বাজারমূল্য প্রতি শতাংশ প্রায় ১২ লাখ টাকা করে। সেই হিসাবে শুধু জমির দাম দাঁড়ায় প্রায় ১০ কোটি টাকা। তার ওপর দ্বিতল ভবনের দামসহ বাড়িতে অবস্থিত গাছপালার দাম হবে তিন কোটি টাকা_মোট ১৩ কোটি টাকা।
বিগত তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকারের সময়ে ২০০৭ সালের জুলাই মাসে পল্লীশ্রীর বিরুদ্ধে অবৈধ দখলের অভিযোগ উঠলে প্রধান উপদেষ্টার কার্যালয় থেকে ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়কে তদন্তের নির্দেশ দেওয়া হয়। সেই সময়ে ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়ে কর্মরত জোট সরকারের আশীর্বাদপুষ্ট একজন যুগ্ম সচিব ২০০৮ সালের ১৩ জানুয়ারি সরেজমিন তদন্ত করেন। কিন্তু তদন্ত প্রতিবেদনে সুকৌশলে তিনি এসব বিষয় এড়িয়ে যান। অবৈধভাবে লিজ প্রদান ও সরকারি রাজস্ব ক্ষতির বিষয় ধামাচাপা দিয়ে তিনি প্রতিবেদন দাখিল করেন।
পল্লীশ্রী কার্যালয়ে গিয়ে বিষয়টি সম্পর্কে জানতে চাইলে প্রতিষ্ঠানের কর্মকর্তা কামাল উদ্দিন বলেন, 'এ জমি বরাদ্দ নেওয়ার ক্ষেত্রে কোনো ধরনের অনিয়ম করা হয়নি। অযথাই আমাদের বিরুদ্ধে আপত্তি তোলা হয়েছে। তবে সরকারের পক্ষ থেকে যে সিদ্ধান্ত দেওয়া হবে, আমরা সেটাই মেনে নেব।' তিনি মূল ভবনের সামনে সরকারি দোতলা ভবনটি দেখিয়ে বলেন, পুরো জায়গাটির কাগজপত্র সঠিক নিয়মেই হয়েছে। শুধু এই ভবনটির বিষয়ে আপত্তি রয়েছে। ওই ভবনের সামনে পল্লীশ্রীর হস্তশিল্পকর্মের একটি শোরুম রয়েছে। এ ছাড়া কয়েকটি কক্ষে অফিস এবং বাকিগুলো তারা গোডাউন হিসেবে ব্যবহার করছে। তিনি বলেন, রাজনৈতিক কারণেই তাঁদের এই ভবনটি বুঝিয়ে দেওয়া হচ্ছে না।
দিনাজপুরের অতিরিক্ত জেলা প্রশাসক (রাজস্ব) মকবুল হোসেনের কাছে জানতে চাইলে তিনি বলেন, 'আমি নতুন এসেছি। বিষয়টি ভালো করে জানি না। খোঁজ নিয়ে দেখব।'
এ ব্যাপারে জানতে চাইলে ভূমি প্রতিমন্ত্রী মোস্তাফিজুর রহমান ফিজার বলেন, আইনের বাইরে তো আর কেউ যেতে পারবে না। তিনি বলেন, বিগত সরকার এবং প্রধানমন্ত্রীর পরিবারের লোকজন এ রকম অনেক কাজ করেছেন, যা মোটেও আইনসম্মত হয়নি। অথচ বর্তমান সরকার এসব বিষয়ে কোনো পদক্ষেপ নিতে গেলে তাঁরা সেটাকে রাজনৈতিকভাবে দেখেন।

 

 








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RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)



Dear Mr. Hoque:
 
How wonderful experience beautifully explained!
 
There are millions of wonderful, kind and noble people in this world. However, as a people we are rarely taught "to give". We expect too much from others yet are not ready to give. Our noble Prophet (SWS) taught us that if you can not afford any thing else even a smile is charity. Please try to learn from these two examples and do some thing similar to two other human beings, be they Muslim, Hindu or a Kafir. You wanted to show gratitude to the Creator. The best expression of gratitude is to follow His true commandments as shown in the Quran and the Sunnah.
 
Please keep writing words of encouragements. You are the future leaders of the community. Next time we want to hear a noble act you did, even if small.
 
Because I believe that even small acts of kindness is great.
 
Aziz Huq 
 


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: haquetm83@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:13:36 -0700
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

 
Dear Mr. Aziz Huq,
 
Thanks for your kind reply and all the nice comments.
 
As I always like to provide from my own experiences - upon your encouragement here are two, I like to share in this instant -
 
1. Paris - from Paris we wanted to go and visit Disney Land at the outskirt of Paris. From a bus station we do not know where is the tube or how to go. I have with me my two young daughters and wife. I asked in English, a middle aged man with his wife and daghter. The man said something to his family and asked me to follow him. While walking with him we two were talking. He is a history teacher in a high school and came to Paris on his summer vaccation so he does not Paris much. He asked someone and we kept walking. We walked around 2 kilometer before he showed me the metro station and made sure that I can make it from there. Where are you going, you are not going where we are going - I wondered and asked. You remember I left my wife and daughter and they are waiting for me! This poor Bangal did not understand the whole episode - what on earth he should walk with me two kilometers to make sure that I find the right direction. A stanger can do that and that to a Bangladeshi! 
 
2. Samarkand - In my recent trip to Uzbekistan I did not miss the chance to visit Samarkand - the place of our great Imam - Imam al Bukhari. It was a day long trip by train. I was accompanied by a local young man from Tashkent. A man in his official car collected us from the station and drove us to Imam Bukhari's grave - a recently completed huge maousoleum. The driver of the car did not speak english, explaining to my companion and he was telling me all about Samarkand, Imam Bukhari, Taimur Lan and the society, hills and their lamb meat. He was often holding my cap, Gloves or camera.
 
I was told that I can go down to see the actual grave. So, I was about to kneel to untie my shoe laces but before I reach I found the man was trying to untie my laces. In my child hood I do not think I wore leather shoes for which my mother would have tied the laces. Very rarely my wife would tie my laces when I am in hurry and she is in very good and loving mood. Occassionaly my little one would say Baba let me do it. But a stranger, older than me is trying to untie my lace is unbelievable for me, he lives in the town where took birth a great warrior of our history whose mausoleum we latter visited and here also lies second to the nobel Quran only, the great Muslim who compiled the most auhenticated sayings and actions of our prophet.
I already knelt and felt like crumpled and shattered to the man's humbleness. Until the lunch he offered to us at his own expense I was thinking he is a driver offered to us but I learned than he is an engineer graduated from Moscow university. This poor Bangal never could think of such simplicity, mannerism and politeness of fellow humans.
 
Both stories, to me a great example and experience in my few decades life in this world. If I meet that French man (a non muslim) again and the Engineer who shattered my thinking style if come far Hajj, both, I will embrace close to my heart and surrender all my remaining egos as well as treasure that I may possess.       
 
As I am fully endebted to my creator who send for me these two human to learn and obey and to be grateful.
 
M Haque

--- On Fri, 16/7/10, Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)
To: "alochona alochona" <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, 16 July, 2010, 2:48 AM

 

Dear Mr. Hoque:

Happy to hear your response. Happier still to learn that you make a decent living from Halal sources. That is so challenging these days and age. Your concern for other fellow human beings and your kith and kin is very much appreciated and justified.

We waste so much of our time in fruitless pursuits and we expect too much from our leaders and from the government, which is understood but the society will not change through the guidance or motivation of our leaders because we do not have many good leaders.

Instead we all can do small acts of goodness, kindness and service to others.

Small can indeed be beautiful.

Those who are capable of changing the society they should boldly go ahead and do that but for the rest of us we have to pick up small projects and make them successful. How long are we going to complain, expect, hope and do nothing? Let us start small.  There is so much to do yet so little time and such a small number of people. So much injustice, unfairness, inequality and cruelty. How can any one solve all the problems?

One of the major hallmark of our faith is to do good to others, serve others thus serve God. God Almighty does not need our service. He is all encompassing and self-sufficient.

 Show small genuine acts of kindness to the rickshaw-puller, the sweeper, the house servant, the butcher, the baker and the poor. Try to stop one unjust dowry based marriage and encourage the man to give the marriage gift of Meher to his wife and not the other way round which is injustice to women and is Haram in Islam.

Show respect and kindness to your wife and children. You may already be doing this. If so then continue to do so.

You can take on small projects locally. Organize the local population and set up a park where children could play and the elders could breathe fresh air. Go and visit an orphanage or if you have money or if you are a good organizer then go and set up an orphanage.

What ever small act of goodness you do, do that solely with the intention to please Allah subhanahu wa Taala and do not expect reward or appreciation from others. You will receive immense satisfaction and reward in the Hereafter from Allah, insha'Allah.

You might like to share your achievement in your service to humanity not for reward from man but to motivate others. Post your story in this forum.

In this forum like many others and groups and assembly of men hardly do we hear positive acts undertaken by ordinary people like most of us. This forum (Alochona) is one of the oldest and largest. Step by step this can become an engine of change if more people like you start thinking about the welfare of the society which is also the object of this moderated forum.

 

Aziz Huq  
 


To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
From: haquetm83@yahoo. com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:42:29 -0700
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

 
Dear Mr. Aziz Huq,
 
Thanks for nice words and encouragement.
 
I am not a hystorian not a scholar on the subjects I often deal with. It is, all out of living experiences and my focus in life.
I do have few books on hystory in my shelves but what I see everyday, what I made to understand, that always intrigues me and out of love of my people I spent time sharing my opinion, with the hope that this might encourage, unite us to a better understanding.
I did not try to write our hystory rather our common characteristics that affect us today on daily basis.
Glorifying Bengol or Bangalis does not do any good to their present deplorable conditions. For me 'today' is more important than yesterday.Allow me to tell you why.
 
Does any thing pains you when you retire at the end of a day. After reciting Ayatul Kursi what do you say or think. Alhamdulillah, less of persoanl- other than wish for my children, it is my people, often a big sigh then a prayer for a good leader who can change the plight of my people.
I am certain that we do share few common things including a wish for genuine well being of our people and closest of all we do not take our wisdom from Sh.Mujib or Zia.
 
I do not write well, yet I try honestly reflect on the reality. Let me repeat the issue of our "personality' that obscure our positioning in a competitive society. Many Pakistani or Indians I see them in a good positions, few of them I happen to know. I wonder how this guy secured such a position. Only to reflect on this I had to go back. Sonar Banglar treasure diye Shaesta khan or Warren Hesting ki koresilo it is only relevant to researchers, historians. Emperor Akbar allowed a land to East Inida company and that was the begining of great conquer and the rise of Akbar, what pains me at 11.Pm has nothing to do with Akbarer kirti or Zia's courtmarshal on often revolting majors or other officers.
 
At my childhood I have seen my grandfathers pakka building, roof to floor. What it implies, my father  had to ferry small marchandise from Kolkata on his shoulder before he made his fortune 60 years ago. today I walk on silk or wool carpet (with my 100% halal earnings). My  cousins, they are the majority, all barely make a living. Writing or describing my grandfathers buidling's architect how much would help? Ramadan is coming I need to help few of them (some at their late 60s) to eat two square meal. I also see hundreds of them in my village, they desperately need help and this is the history I always see. I do not think they are inferior they do have many good qualities which I do not possess but ignoring their plight is a great disrespect, aberration to my spirituality.
 
I only tried to make my point sighting a fraction of our history. No nation is inferior or far too great. I have been to Uzbekistan very rencently - imagine their past, central asia was the focal point of the world, see them today!
 
You talked about arsenic problem - one REB general manager who stayed at my place narrated this story - a news paper printing a series of stories on arsenic contamination from chemically treated electric poles imported from Philippine. REB investigated the soil around few poles in Chapai Nababgang and found no contamination. You know why his paid journalists run that story line - the newspaper owner has concrete electric pole factory in Thakurgao.
Today arsening contamination is far worse then before and so its reasons. Which is highly political, none of us can deal with the issue with full grasp, highly political water experts will provide you non relevant hypothesis, though it is a very serious issue for our own survival.
 
River that help developed our nation, our civilisation and our treasure, that attracted foreign bandits, today it is our local heroes submits our glory, our water, our treasures to foreign masters for their protection.
It is pertinent that we should write and narrate our current history in truth.  I hope I managed to made my point clear.
 
(on a different note - I wrote to two of our famous poets and novelists. one from the bank of Jamuna and the other from a nearby town of Padma, do you have any writings on these rivers - one politely replied - 'no sir' another did not reply - they are our 71's spirit bearers, write our history).
 
Haque
 
   

--- On Wed, 14/7/10, Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail. com> wrote:

From: Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail. com>
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)
To: "alochona alochona" <alochona@yahoogroup s.com>
Date: Wednesday, 14 July, 2010, 3:26 AM

 
Dear Mr. Haque:
 
Honest article on self evaluation.
 
Yes, Bangladesh has long ways to go but time is running out. One out of five people are infected with arsenic poinsoning (WHO report), one hundred sixty million people crammed in an ever shrinking land mass and the the evil of global warming is staring at the face of Bangladesh more than any other place on earth. 
 
You mention that if we take 20 best sellers from the sixties todate...
 
I will go one step further: take one thousand most popular books during the last hundred years and anlyze them and you will see a trend. The hallmark of our intellectualism is narrating social ills vividly, some times with exageration. Hardly do we see solutions to the problems in our literature. We seem to relish poverty, failure and childish behavior. Our culture fosters negativity, pessimism and a sense of helplessness.
 
Mr. Haque:  You seem to imply that we are genetically inferior. Which is not scientifically correct. All races have well distributred mixture of people. Also if you look at our history our forefathers were not all local Hindus. In our vein flows the blood of Arabs, Pathans, Afgans, Turks and Persian. For over a thousand years scholars, preachers, writers, artists, judges, soldiers and rulers have come to our land. They did not go back. We are the children of these people. If you look around, you will know what I am talking about. So, it is not a matter of genetics. 
 
We need to look around and find a source of moral values. We have to look around and find real leaders. We do not need to wait for our national leaders to give us leadership. This has to come from ordinary people doing small deeds of kindness and of noble value. Collectively that will generate the necessary force of change.
 
As people grow and mature each will come to his/her conclusion of the goal and objectivity of life. I have come to my own value of life. Travelling through time, reading, reflecting, seeing people, system and societies I have come to the realization that we have a great treasure which most Bangladeshis will never taste. I have been privileged to get a slight glimpse of that greatness and that is the reason I try to share my knowledge with others at any opportunity I get. But that is for other times.
 
Best of luck and never quit reflecting on life and what matters most. Sincerely look for solutions and you will find it.
 
Aziz Huq
 

To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
From: haquetm83@yahoo. com
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:02:56 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

 
Democratic polity did not set it's root in our society for various reasons.
Since, we the people from this deltaic plain of Padma, Jamuna and Meghna always ruled by outsiders, feeling of freedom and equity was suppressed as lived under oppression and submission. In so doing developed and demonstrates submissive characteristics in general. One may disagree but that will be only distortion of reality out of sheer ego and exaggeration which can not be helpful for our progress. However, it does not mean that self respect and free thinkers were not there or no one emerged with strong voice and values.

Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis. Shockingly it continues today under Sh. Hasina or Begum Khaleda who are native of this land.
The GDP in nominal or real term has increased many fold in last 60 years, yet it is far below than what achieved by our moderate neighbors, save those great achievers in our neighborhood.
Impoverishment chastised further our bodily and moral strength and values that, I am afraid, today runs into our blood and genre. Any Bangladeshi, everywhere demonstrates a personality that will bear this testimony. The same appears as deterrence to securing leading positions in competition with others, even with Pakistanis and Indians as main point of disqualification. This only excludes purely technical hands.

We usually shout at wrong time and in wrong place (out of passive characteristic) often with loud and noisy exaggeration, ineffectively.
'Bengalis could think ahead of Indians or Pakis', only on certain given circumstances but that also diminished in thin air long ago.

Take twenty most read novels from 60s to todate, find a character that effectively demonstrated and exercised good values that influenced our society effectively towards a positive dimension!

Take fifty articles of our popular columnists from the same period, you will notice inherent intellect, eloquence, objectivity and farsightedness all collapses in great inconsistency and often in great disarray representing there social positioning then and now. It does tell the same old tale.

Democracy, humanity and social justice in their perception changes along the line of their mentors (netris). What they vowed to fight yesterday against, today they accept and submit only to satisfy their masters. When they claim as scholars (budhijibi), can't be called free human.

Take example of Rab killings, custodial deaths, high court's inaction or misruling, injustice that taken place under BNP, you will notice how vehemently those scholars opposed and stood as symbol of a savior of democracy, justice and human rights. Today they are very silent on the same issues, accepts the crimes as committed by their Netris. It can not be from an independent mind that takes it's wisdom from its own values. But why we are so? Their submissive and criminal embedded psychology as we have seen our history books, repeats - only to safeguard and protect the 'dada babu, korta, mohajon and its equivalent today.

Today when we count on our GNP or literacy rate both explains the conditions of the majority. No one is ready to take responsibility and ownership of our sordid conditions and status, yet they plan for a life time rule.
It is a strange manifestation in our society, strange indeed to prove that we love freedom, we care for justice for our people.
We have a long way to go!




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