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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Kazi Zaker Hossain on indigenous races



Kazi Zaker Hossain on indigenous races



http://sonarbangladesh.com/blog/tipu1900/48354


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[ALOCHONA] Foreign tours by public money...



Foreign tours by public money...




http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/06/29/89988


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[ALOCHONA] Disputed border survey and uranium



Disputed border survey and uranium


http://dailynayadiganta.com/2011/06/28/fullnews.asp?News_ID=285625&sec=1



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[ALOCHONA] TIB Study on 9th Parliament

TIB Study on 9th Parliament

98 bills passed in 135 work days; absence of MPs, sitting delay cause loss

Inclusion of the opposition in parliamentary committees is a positive
step towards establishing accountability, while low turnout of
lawmakers in parliament sittings hinders the democratic process, said
a study of Transparency International, Bangladesh.

Formulation of 48 parliamentary bodies in the first session of the
ninth parliament, accommodating members of the opposition, and setting
up of two committees headed by opposition politicians was hailed in
the TIB study.

The research also finds as many as 98 bills were passed in the ninth
parliament through 37 hours of discussions in 135 working days.

However, it says the parliament in the last six sessions spent about
Tk 19 crore just waiting for lawmakers to how up and make quorum.

About Tk 42,000 is spent in every minute of parliament proceedings,
the research estimates after calculating that total hours of delay by
quorum crisis was 74 hours.

"Although the ruling party enjoys huge majority and attendance of its
lawmakers is comparatively higher, quorum crisis delayed beginning of
all the sittings," says the research.

On average, each daily sitting was delayed by 33 minutes even though
the ruling party has over two-thirds majority in parliament, which
also experienced the largest ever period of boycott by the opposition.

"The trend of parliament boycott by the opposition has gradually
increased and reached a level of concern. Turnout of those who go to
parliament is also low," said TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman
after briefing journalists about the research findings at the Jatiya
Press Club yesterday.

Titled "Parliament-watch", the research reveals BNP walked out 16
times during its short stay in only 23 out of total 135 working days.
The main opposition has so far boycotted 83 percent of working days,
which was 59 percent and 42 percent in the eighth and seventh
parliament respectively.

On average, the treasury bench lawmakers attended 66 percent of the
House proceedings, while it was below 25 percent for the opposition
lawmakers. Attendance of the leader of the House was 72.4 percent
against only five days or 2.9 percent by the leader of the opposition.

The research suggests reducing the deadline for mandatory attendance
from 90 working days to 30 days to change the existing attitude of
skipping parliament proceedings.

"Apparently our political culture suffers a lack of sense of
accountability. Once elected, the lawmakers act in a way as if they
were out of the question of accountability. All their activities are
concerned with the interest of their respective parties or personal
gain," said TIB Trustee Board Chairman Sultana Kamal.

Another interesting finding is that four percent of the total 433
working hours was spent in making irrelevant statements. In these
statements, the lawmakers praised their party and party chief 616
times and criticised the opposition 808 times.

Fourteen out of the total 16 BNP walkouts were triggered by ruling
party's criticism. In the latest boycott, BNP has been out of
parliament for 48 working days since the first day of the fifth
session.

Only around 8.5 percent of the total working hours was spent on
formulating laws and 24.5 percent on budget discussion, adds the
research conducted on information collected from parliament and
electronic media between June 2009 and December 2010.

Prof Muzaffer Ahmad, a member of TIB Trustee board, said "We are being
deprived of the constitutional rights by a negative practice in
parliament. The practice is not tabling the treaties or deals filed by
the government with other countries for open discussion."

"The unfortunate fact is that such discussion never took place in
parliament," he added.

The research suggests mandatory participation in the proceedings by
both the leaders of the House and opposition, praising highest
attendees and publishing a list of absentees, increasing working
hours, and involving people in discussion before formulation of laws
regarding public interest.

It also says the waste of money from the delay might be higher as its
estimate only includes non-development and power expenditures. In
addition to these two, the functioning of the House requires
expenditures in some other service sectors.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=191991

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-06-29/news/166204


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[ALOCHONA] FW: More Hyperbole on Ghost Cities in China



           A cyber friend, Mayraj Fahim, shares my keen interest in Local Governance.  He has been digging information on successes of integrated local goverment planning and development in China. He has also been tracing the weakening local goverment functions in the U. S. A. which has enlightened me.
                    
                    So much of our attention is still rivetted on defending our open and ugly communalism in the subcontinent that we have hardly any intellectual energy left to attend to the real-life struggles for progress.

                  ~Farida

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:28:54 -0700
From: fmayraj@yahoo.com
Subject: More Hyperbole on Ghost Cities in China
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com





Basically US media doesn't get China has what US doesn't: integrated local systems geared for urban migration. Meanwhile, US hasn't been able to get its act together since the 1930s, when the problems of this failure were first identified!



http://www.newgeography.com/content/002307-more-hyperbole-ghost-cities-china

More Hyperbole on Ghost Cities in China

by Wendell Cox 06/28/2011
 
The so-called Chinese "Ghost Cities" have been the subject of a number of articles in recent months. There appears to be some truth in the reports, such as in the building of a near empty new city in Inner Mongolia (Ordos). There is also a good deal of hyperbole.
 
A recent article ran in the Business Insider, entitled "New Satellite Pictures of China's Ghost Cities," which relied principally on satellite images, some quite old. Somewhat more proximate (as on-the-ground")  pictures are provided and linked in this article. They show that at least two of the Ghosts have risen from the dead (or they may never have been dead at all).
 
Changsha, Hunan: Changsha is the rapidly growing capital of Hunan province, adding nearly 50 percent to its urban districts between 2000 and 2010 (even greater growth than in the US growth leaders, Las Vegas and Raleigh). The Business Insider article displays a satellite image showing huge areas of construction both to the northeast and to the west of the urban area.
 
 
When planning a 2009 trip to China, I chose to visit Changsha because of the extensive construction shown in this very same satellite image. In my continuing satellite image research on urban areas, especially relating to  Demographia World Urban Areas, I noted that this appeared to be the most extensive construction in the nation. A number of photographs are included inour Changsha Rental Car Tour,  which were taken in September 2009.
On a rainy and quiet Sunday afternoon I took a tour of the northeast construction area and found that much of the construction had been finished. Moreover it was obvious from both the traffic and the open shopping centers and shops that this was anything but a "ghost city" (see photograph, above).
The next day I took a similar trip to the western construction area. As in the northeast, much of the construction was complete and the communities were alive.
 
Zhengzhou, Henan: Zhengzhou is also rapidly growing even faster than Changsha (over 60 percent in 10 years) and is the capital of Henan province. The article displays multiple satellite images of the Zhengzhou New Area. Because of a previous article in the Daily Mail, I took the opportunity on a recent trip to visit the Zhengzhou New Area and file a report. The Zhengzhou New Area is alive.
The Business Insider also indicates an unfamiliarity with Chinese geography.
Outside Jiangsu? A couple of the photographs referred to empty developments as being "outside Jiangsu," as a Westerner might describe a development as being outside Phoenix or Omaha. However Jiangsu is not an urban area or city, it is a province. Thus, to refer to a development as being outside Jiangsu is akin to referring to a development as being outside Arizona or Nebraska.
 
Changsha Already Twice as Large as Los Angeles? The Business Insider also advises us that Changsha is already twice as big as Los Angeles. In fact, there are no comparable geographies between Los Angeles and Changsha that could make such a statement even close to accurate. Regrettably, many writers and much of the press make comparisons between China and other nations without the remotest idea of the meaning of the geographical terms they are using. Here are a couple of ways that Los Angeles and Changsha can be compared.
 
1. Central municipality: The central municipality or core city of the Los Angeles area is the city of Los Angeles. It has a population of approximately 3.8 million people, but accounts for less than one third of the population of either the metropolitan area (functional area or labor market area) or the urban area (physical area or area of continuous development). Strictly speaking, there are no central municipalities in China, because the regions or prefectures are themselves municipalities. It is as if the city of Los Angeles comprised both Los Angeles and Orange counties. Chinese municipalities are divided into districts and if a comparison were to be made at the central municipality level, Changsha's central district would have to be used. This would be the district (qu) of Furong, which has a population of 500,000 people, about 1/8 that of the city of Los Angeles.
 
Core city comparisons are fraught with difficulties. This is illustrated by Melbourne, which had little more than 70,000 people in the last Australian census, approximately two percent of the metropolitan population. The 2010 US Census showed Melbourne, Florida to be larger.
2. Urban Area: The one level at which they valid comparison could be made is the urban area, or the area of continuous urban development. The latest data for Los Angeles (2000) indicates an urban area population of 11.7 million people. The 2010 US Census counts for the Los Angeles area suggest that the urban area total, once released will be little higher than the 2000 figure.
Based upon the 2010 census data, the next edition of Demographia World Urban Areas will estimate the Changsha urban area at approximately 3,000,000 people. Thus, by the urban area metric, Changsha has a population approximately one-quarter that of Los Angeles.
It is possible that Business Insider like others, compared the population of the central city of Los Angeles (3.8 million), which is only part of the urban area to that of the Changsha municipality (7 million), which has more than double the population of the Changsha urban area and covers at least 25 times as much land area (virtually all it rural). They are not the same thing.
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Photograph: In the northwestern Changsha "ghost city:" September 2009 (by author)

Consider how US has failed to address a metro problem first highlighted in 1930!

The first report on the metropolitan governance problem was released in 1930, the report on "The Government of Metropolitan Areas" stated that the problem is not new, it is just different from past in a "quantitative,  not a qualitative manner".
See:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9299. 1931.tb02024.x/abstract

You should keep in mind that first efforts at city-county consolidation were the efforts in 1800s.

See what was said in 1941 about this phenom:


I guess we can say the same is the case since the 1950s in the US.



In 1955, a  Governors' Conference report recommended metro government units
Please see:
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1956/ im5610197.html

Meanwhile, Canada gets metro governance systems across provinces;but, not US. Meanwhile, China  has the largest  metro systems in the world by far. While South Asia is still stuck in the age of Rippon!








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[ALOCHONA] Physical and Mental Health of our Society



Physical and Mental Health of our society

1.

During my two weeks stay, mainly in my village, brought unforgettable happiness except when I had to return to the capital, close to the supreme authority of power and so called posh area of our unlivable Capital.

I had to visit a cousin who was recovering from serious ailment in a big hospital in Dhaka. As we all know of our medical facilities how little for how large a population, and top of it, those who can afford still can not rid him/her off  from the predatory attitude and chauvinistic characteristic of our doctors and medical service providers.                

Let me share what I have experienced during my stay - A kid of a friend of my brother went out to play cricket or foot ball ( I guess children do not play foot ball these days) and came running home that he got hurt in his head. Loving dad rushed him to a good hospital. Doctor asked for a CT scan immediately that revealed no fracture or injury - 'However we need to keep him under observation', bewilder dad couldn't argue, straight to 'CU' . Dad, who just lost millions in share market yet couldn't refuse the cost and the expenditure. When a simple xray could have been the initial test, I am not a doctor but it is common sense, you go step by step, boy was not vomiting or bleeding.  But you are talking against someone who deals with your life and death, you can not argue or negotiate.

2.

Our popular writer Humayan Ahmed's mother was put on a oxygen musk in another good hospital without oxygen and was detected by the 'word spinning' writer himself not by the attending nurse. An influential writer like Humayan Ahmed  did not argue or negotiate but to save his mother's life took her away from the hospital. He never complained – at least with his powerful pen, pencil or Notebook. He took his mother out, out of fear of maltreatment or death but he did not express his frustration, why, if I only meet him in heaven would ask, not in this world. If he would have spoke, a social ill would have got more exposed and benefit would have loomed large but that usually do not happen in our society, play safe and talk tall. The mother has another intellectual 'mover and shaker' son.

3.

I was told that doctor is coming in his tour and he doesn't like to see people around the patient but I was determined to take his wrath and if I can would ask him what is the chance of my sister's normal life here after. He is the best surgeon in the town. I stood firm, so the savior arrives. After describing what is her status and rehabilitation needs, I spoke. But surprisingly found him very appreciative, he sat down on the bed and put his hand on my sister's foot.  I was assured, though following day to my surprise she was taken to ICU again and my inlaw was struggling with more than a million taka bill.

 4.

Alhamdulillah! During my many yearly vacations I never had to visit doctors clinic so far, but was invited for  lunch or dinner many a time by famous doctors. They are generally very  hard working who works more than 14 hours a day, 5 to 6 hours with the government hospital, another 7 hours at the private hospital. Few of them goes abroad frequently, buys flats and land every other year, talk tall -a symbol of nouve rich in our society. Hospitals they work for not only lack confidence but lack minimum ethics.  

5.

It is not only that our health care is crumbling in the hand of politicians and their crony physicians but the doctors in their hospital void of any hospitality save the professional ethics.  This succinctly mirror our society, a young doctor tells me how the doctors were used who await it under a doctrine or philosophy of faith embedded in utter greed,  by the politicians from the successive governments that helped further the cause of deterioration of this service sector, thanks to the unqualified promotions and postings that also culminated into unbridle corruptions.

6.

Perhaps, I wouldn't have spoken that day had I not lived abroad, like our writer and scientist despite their mother was put at risk, symbolizing the fear that exists and greed that devoid us of our consciousness.   

Note – I have checked full weak following the incident of Dr. Muhammad Zafarullah's mother and found nothing on the issue in their favorite news dailies. I wish their mother all well.



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[ALOCHONA] One more time hasina proved that She is not L...........



Recently I asked a question in www.facebook.com .  The question was:   What is Hasina ? 1. leader 2. Manager 3. Boss..

 Though very few people  answered that question  but none voted Hasina  as leader. most of the people  voted her as Manager and few as Boss.

 From her  recent article ভালোর পসরা in www.bdnews24.com , it is  clear one more time that Hasina is not a leader.  If  She were leader, she would not be angry to those who expect better performance from her, her government.  Because leaders always strive for better performance. They not only  strive  for better performance themselves but also inspire  followers  for better  performance.   If  we look at the accomplishment of four different catagoris of people  by one leadership expert, John C. Maxell  in his Book "Developing the leader with you", we see

"Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of Labor.
Showing others is the accomplishment of a teacher.
Making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of a Manager.
Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a Leader."
 
Now if  we look at the performance of    present government of Hasina, is it crime to  say that  you have to do much more? http://bangladeshimahathir.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-more-time-hasina-proved-that-she-is.html

The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge



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[ALOCHONA] Fwd: No more delay in providing transit to India: Gowher Rizvi



------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: No more delay in providing transit to India: Gowher Rizvi
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>


Gowher Rizvi's statement, " We've waited for 40 years to offer transit to India. We can't wait anymore", says it all about why he was picked up as PM's Foreign Affairs Adviser, with the status, salary and allowances of a minister. Is it not absolutely clear that he has been working for India and not for Bangladesh? His policy is, thus, one-way traffic and, hence, a failed foreign policy!

In any foreign relations there are two sides: give and take. Rizvi is there to give to India and not to take anything in return from India. Would it be 'uncivilised' for him to take anything from India in return for any give?

How many years have we been waiting for justice from India about the water of 54 common rivers? Can he work out a picture of the loss to Bangladesh due to desertification and other effects of India's water aggression policy? Can he work out the amount of loss of lives and other damages due to India's armed intervention in CHT since 1976? Can he work out the losses to Bangladesh in all other Indian operations in Bangladesh, such as BDR massacre, border killings, land grabbing, uneven trade, etc. etc.? Can he work out a figure for compensation for the losses to Bangladesh due to uneven relations? Can he claim the compensation amount from India?? Has he any clue of the security aspects of Bangladesh or of the regional strategic policies or of economic interest or of territorial interest such as Talpatti, and other interests etc. of Bangladesh? Or does his policy simply coincide with the hegemonic policies of India?

It is perhaps better to tell him point blank that we shall not surrender our independence and sovereignty to India, come what may!!  

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> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:35:18 +0600
> Subject: No more delay in providing transit to India: Gowher Rizvi
> From:
bdmailer@gmail.com
> To:
>
> No more delay in providing transit to India: Gowher Rizvi
>
> Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr. Gowher Rizvi on Monday
> said that there should be no further delay in providing transit to
> India."We've waited for 40 years to offer transit to India. We can't
> wait anymore," he told a seminar organized by Economic Reporters Forum
> (ERF) at the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
>
> The seminar titled "Connectivity: Economy and Other Aspects" was also
> addressed by Tariff Commission chairman Dr. Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh
> Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) research director KAS Murshid
> and ERF president Monwar Hossain.
>
> Referring to the global edge of connectivity, Dr. Gowher Rizvi said
> the whole world is moving towards establishing greater connectivity,
> and Bangladesh cannot be beyond that reality.
>
> He alleged that some misleading campaigns are being launched against
> providing transit to India. Many people raise questions as to what
> benefits the others will get from the transit.
>
> "But, the discussion should be more on what benefits Bangladesh would
> derive from the transit," the PM's adviser said, adding that
> Bangladesh will get huge benefits from the transit.
>
> He said it's not true that India would not pay any fees for the
> transit. "We'll get every legal and legitimate fee from India for
> using transit facilities."
>
> Dr. Gowher Rizvi said Bangladesh expects transit facilities through
> India from Nepal and Bhutan in near future.
>
> Tariff Commission chairman Dr. Mujibur Rahman said transit issue is
> not a new issue. India has been enjoying transit facilities from
> Bangladesh for many years in the river routes. "But the transit
> through roads and railways are now being re-established through the
> new agreements."
>
> He claimed that both the governments of Ershad and Khaleda Zia had
> recognized the necessity of transit. So, it has a popular support.
>
> BIDS research director KAS Murshid said transit should not be offered
> to India before carrying out a thorough study on the loss and benefits
> for Bangladesh.
>
> He said if there is any proven necessity, at best the railway transit
> could be offered to India on a mid-term basis.
>
http://www.unbconnect.com/component/news/task-show/id-51427



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[ALOCHONA] Just keep the camera down & save me !



Just keep the camera down & save me !












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