No happy ending from
present regime
Arafin
Dear
Ripan,
I
read your article titled
All's well that
end's well. You touched the burning features of the present day
crises in Bangladesh. But you are leaving far from the country, as I
understand. I work at the grass root level and try to feel the nerve
of the mass people. Running a country and the running of a
bureaucracy is very much deferent. Furthermore a regimented
organization is different than a civil organization. You pass
command and things are done, and, you do things are also different.
Hundreds of army personnel are working in the civil administration
most of whom are sitting at the highest position. But they are
unable to alter the culture of those organizations. On the contrary,
they are known to introduce different form of injurious traditions
in those organizations. Our medical college hospitals are directed
by uniformed officers. But come to the country and visit there to
heal your wound. DESA, WASA, city corporation, Bepza, Sea ports ,
Air port and where you cannot find an uniformed official? But they
are there as the other employees.
Uniformity is not the ultimate object of a democracy. You demolished
thousands of hats and bazaars terming them illegal. But they are
again at that position. A remote village market situated on a
khash land at an interior part of Jhenaidah District did no harm
to any one. But it was destroyed. The mudis and other shop
owners had to lose few thousand taka to re-build them. Their income
has gone down.
People are very simple in thinking. They are happy that BDR men are
selling essentials at low cost. But add the pay, salary, Daily
allowance, fuel cost, vehicles rent, rent of the places BDR is using
and many other related thing and facilities that a business man
needs to pay for. The BDR initiatives are really costly. And the
real thing is that BDR force exists primarily for guarding the
border and secondarily for helping the civil administration for law
and order maintenance. But you engaged them to work as mudir
dokani.
Nothing unplanned can see a well end. So I am doubtful that the
present regime will generate a happy ending.
