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UniPay2U the Mirracle to be rich !!!!

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BERJAYAUniPay2U becoming a hot gossip of the town ,Specially on internet active area of Bangladesh ! UniPay2U offers Mirracle to be rich !UniPay2U A gold-trading company from Malaysia which claims to be making 96% by converting 24-carat gold into 22 carats!

A sucker is born every minute, goes the saying. In Bangladesh, a pyramid scheme and multi-level marketing company is launched every minute. The latest is a gold-trading company, UniPay2U, promoted by Malaysia-based Best Genius SDN BHD. Its registered office is in Bengaluru and it is offering 200% returns on gold investments in just 10 months.

According to the companys siteunipay2u.comanyone can join its business plan by investing tk 21,000 for buying 10 units and upto a maximum of 150 units for tk3.15 lakh. It has two plans, retention and non-retention. In the first, the customer can buy gold but is promised actual delivery after six months. He is promised a 2.5% interest per month on his investment. UniPay2U offers redemption of gold after six months through a multinational bank, if you are in the North East. In the non-retention plan, the customer buys the gold but never gets to possess it. Instead, he is offered 20% interest per month for 10 months along with 10% of his original investment.

Knowing that every prospective client will have a doubt in his or her mind about how the company will pay such high rates of interest, UniPay2U addresses the issue upfront. Here is its ingenious answer. According to some blogs run by UniPay2Us agents, the company buys 24-carat gold and converts it into 22-carat gold at its own factory outlet and, in the process, gains 60gm of gold on every 1kg! The company claims to be a gold-trading licence holder and so apparently it gets triple credit every week from the market. On buying 1kg of gold, it gets 3kg of gold as credit each week. So, the 60gmkg it gains every week, gets converted into 240gm of profit per week or 96% per month (24%x4, as per the blog). Simple.

Well, if converting 24-carat gold into 22-carat gold could earn huge money, then all large jewellers would not have taken the pain to set up spacious shops for selling jewellery that mostly is made with 22-carat gold.
Doesnt UniPay2U come under the Bangladesh Bank Here is what its website says. Ms UniPay2U Marketing (P) Ltd is not a non-banking financial institution; but is engaged in trading activities. The company is not accepting deposits from the public. , the membership fee accepted by the company as per the schemes of gold trading cannot be termed as public deposits. Further, the company cannot be termed as a banking financial institution. .

In short, UniPay2U is neither regulated by nor answerable to anyone. Further, to sound credible, the company website contains https (more secured) format instead of the usual http format, and claims to be secured by SSL. The protocol, https or hypertext transfer protocol-secure, is used by entities to denote secure e-commerce transactions like online banking.

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guru @ October 3, 2010

CSE, the best performing market in the world

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Sources :Sri Lanka’s stocks closed up 2.1 percent Friday becoming the best performing market in the world, up 110.9 percent so far according to Bloomberg newswires data, beating Mongolia at 109.7 percent. Bangladesh was a distant third at 56.4 percent.

Colombo’s benchmark All Share Price Index closed at 7,147, topping the 7,000 mark, and up 150.56 points.

The more liquid Milanka Price Index closed at 7,829.05, up 3.66 percent (276.34 points).Turnover was six billion rupees, according to provisional stock exchange data. Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings, which Thursday announced a deal with Six Senses for a new resort on the south coast, was the day’s third highest gainer, closing at 854.30 rupees, up 134.30 rupees or 18.7 percent. Colombo Dockyard, which was heavily traded, closed at 284.90 rupees, up 11.20, with several off-the-floor deals done at 270 rupees. Last year Colombo stocks rose 120 percent, ending the year as the world’s second best performing market. Sri Lanka emerged from a 30-year-conflict in May 2009, raising optimism about future growth.

CEO, Ram Ratings Lanka Ltd, Adrian Perera said that becoming the best performing stock market is a proud moment but we must continue to maintain it with proper checks and balances.

He said that regulators are mindful of this situation and are taking steps to maintain same. Perera noted that it is very important to maintain stability or else it will hurt a lot of small investors if there is a stock market crash. To avoid this situation reporting, transparency and good governance should be maintained.

He said that there should be more liquidity in the market. At present a lot of money is going after a small number of shares. It has lead to certain shares being over priced while some shares are very expensive in Sri Lanka compared to the region. Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Bangladesh are emerging markets and fund managers place a lot of emphasis on these markets. In Bangladesh, prior to a company being listed they have to get a rating. In India, companies have to get themselves rated by two companies prior to a listing. A top stock broker said that becoming the world’s best performing market is a historic moment and this will attract more top investors to the country. Also it will make investors who were undecided to look at our country positively. All stock brokers are happy as we were eagerly looking forward to our stock market becoming the number one performing market in the world, he said

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guru @ October 3, 2010

Desi Tiger ,Sundarbans tigers smallest in world

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BERJAYASources:The Sundarbans tigers may be the smallest tigers in the world, suggests a new study.

The study was carried out by the Sundarbans Tiger Project, a joint initiative between the Bangladesh Forest Department, Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB), Zoological Society of London and the University of Minnesota.

The research was funded by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Tiger and Rhino Fund.

There is only one species of tiger but scientists have split this into nine subspecies based on differences in their physical appearance and genetics, a release of the WTB said yesterday.

Tigers from the mangrove forest of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh and India are currently classified under the Bengal tiger sub species along with tigers across India, Nepal and Bhutan.

However, the tigers in the Sundarbans weigh just 76.7 kg, nearly half of the weight of other wild Bengal tigers, which average at 138.2 kg. This is also less than the average weight of tigers from any of the other 8 sub-species, making the Sundarbans tigers probably the smallest in the world.

Previously, it was believed that the Sumatran tiger was the smallest with an average weight of 86.7 kg. The reasons for the small size of Sundarbans are not known but the authors of the study suggest this could be related to the small size of deer available to tigers in the Sundarbans, compared to the larger deer and other prey available to tigers in other parts of the world.

Dr Adam Barlow from WTB said, ??We always thought the Sundarbans tigers were small based on their track size, but until now we didn’t know just how much small they really were. After all these years of people studying tigers it is exciting to dig up new information about this elusive and highly endangered animal and to see how it is adapting to live in different environments.??

Using a vast collection of tiger skulls from the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, the researchers also looked at differences in skull measurements between subspecies, finding that Sundarbans tigers have slightly different skull shapes compared to other tigers.

These findings are preliminary due to the small number of specimens used and not enough to make the Sundarbans tigers a new subspecies, which would require genetic investigation.

However, their physical differences do increase their importance in terms of conservation, because these tigers have unique physical traits not found in other tigers. They are also the only tigers in the world to live in a mangrove habitat.

The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest, with 6,000 sq km falling in Bangladesh, and 4,000 sq km over the border in India. With approximately 300-500 tigers in the Bangladesh side of the Sundarbans alone, this area may also represent one of the best chances for saving the species, which probably numbers less than 3,500 individuals in the world.

These remaining pockets of tigers are threatened by poaching for the traditional Asian medicine trade, hunting of the tiger’s prey for local meat consumption and destruction of their habitat to make room for expanding human populations.

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guru @ October 2, 2010

All About Moral Perfaction!!!

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Mind Power
Self Improvement
Power of Concentration
Will power & Self Discipline

Motivation
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Power of Positive Thinking
Success & Achieving Goals

Meditation
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Abundance,Anger,Attitude,,BhagavadGita,,Compassion,Confidence,Courage,Decisions,Dreams,,Enthusiasm,Fear,,Forgiveness,,Freedom,,Friendship,,Goals,,Happiness,,Hope,,InnerPeace,,InnerSilence,,Kindness,,Laziness,,Leadership,,Love,,Meditation,,Mind&Consciousness,,Motivation
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guru @ October 2, 2010

India Cancels Tenders For Grain Deliveries To Bangladesh -Traders

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Source :India has cancelled tenders seeking bids from private companies to transport a combined 500,000 metric tons of wheat and rice from government stockpiles to Bangladesh after the four companies that made offers quoted the same price, people familiar with the matter said Friday.

The tenders are now being reissued, inviting fresh bids.

The cancellation of the tenders has once again brought to the fore the issue of selling grains to Bangladesh at higher than market prices.

The four bidders–LMJ International, Amira Foods, Emmsons International and Shivnath Rai Harnarain India–all quoted the same price of around $99/ton, said one of the people familiar with the developments.

The price includes all costs from lifting the grains from warehouses of Food Corp. of India to discharge at the ports in Bangladesh.

State Trading Corp. and PEC Ltd. both issued tenders for wheat and rice.

Two companies bid to undertake wheat transport to Bangladesh in the tender issued by State Trading Corp. and rice in the tender issued by PEC Ltd. The other two companies bid the opposite, to undertake rice deliveries in the STC tender and wheat in the PEC tender.

Another person tracking the tenders said the government was concerned over what it considered coordinated bids by the four companies.

Executives of the bidding companies when contacted said their bids were similar but noted that the tenders were cancelled because the quoted price was higher than the government’s expectations.

“Since there were two tenders by STC and PEC, each company bid separately for either wheat or rice and for different quantities, depending on the capacity they can handle,” said an executive at one of the bidding companies.

He said although the average price quoted may be the same, the actual cost will differ depending on the location of the warehouse from which wheat and rice is lifted for shipment to Bangladesh.

Transportation of grains from a warehouse close to the port will be cheaper than transportation from warehouses of interior states such as Punjab and Haryana, which are farther away from the port, he noted.

Another executive said that ideally, the government should have asked the companies to lower their price bids rather than cancel the tenders.

The tenders were originally due to close Sept. 22, but the deadline to submit bids was later extended to Sept. 27 and subsequently cancelled.

Traders said shipment of grains from the open market to Bangladesh will be much cheaper than the current sales from Indian government stocks.

India has decided to sell wheat and rice to Bangladesh at the economic cost, which involves all the expenditure, including procurement from farmers, maintenance, handling, bagging and storage.

Based on current exchange rates, the economic cost of wheat is $324/ton and that of rice $456/ton. After adding the transportation costs quoted in the latest tenders, the delivered price will be $423/ton for wheat and $555/ton for rice.

In a global tender Bangladesh opened Thursday, the lowest bids for optional origin wheat and rice were much lower at $328.85/ton and $483/ton, basis cost and freight by LMJ International, which is also participating in the STC and PEC tenders.

Despite an overall ban on exports of wheat and non-basmati rice, India’s government has permitted shipments of 300,000 tons of rice and 200,000 tons of wheat from government stocks to Bangladesh through two state-owned companies.

The permission to export rice was first granted more than four months ago, but no shipments have taken place so far. Bangladesh continues to import rice of other origins through global tenders, in which India-based companies are major participants.

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guru @ October 2, 2010

THE POWER OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE – BY REMEZ SASSON

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BERJAYABERJAYAPositive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

Positive attitude manifests in the following ways:

Positive thinking.
Constructive thinking.

Creative thinking.

Expecting success.

Optimism.

Motivation to accomplish your goals.

Being inspired.

Choosing happiness.

Not giving up.

Looking at failure and problems as blessings in disguise.

Believing in yourself and in your abilities.

Displaying self-esteem and confidence.

Looking for solutions.

Seeing opportunities.

A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change your whole life. If you look at the bright side of life, your whole life becomes filled with light. This light affects not only you and the way you look at the world, but also your whole environment and the people around you. If it is strong enough, it becomes contagious.

The benefits of a positive attitude:

Helps achieving goals and attaining success.

Success achieved faster and more easily.

More happiness.

More energy.

Greater inner power and strength.

The ability to inspire and motivate yourself and others.

Fewer difficulties encountered along the way.

The ability to surmount any difficulty.

Life smiles at you.

People respect you.

Negative attitude says: you cannot achieve success.Positive attitude says: You can achieve success.

If you have been exhibiting a negative attitude and expecting failure and difficulties, it is now the time to change the way you think. It is time to get rid of negative thoughts and behavior and lead a happy and successful life. Why not start today? If you have tried and failed, it only means that you have not tried enough.

Developing a positive attitude that will lead you to happiness and success:

- Choose to be happy.

- Look at the bright side of life.

- Choose to be and stay optimistic.

- Find reasons to smile more often.

- Have faith in yourself and in the Power of the Universe.

- Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.

- Associate yourself with happy people.

- Read inspiring stories.

- Read inspiring quotes.

- Repeat affirmations that inspire and motivate you.
- Visualize only what you want to happen.

- Learn to master your thoughts.
Presented by Kajal Asar on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 3:52pm

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guru @ October 2, 2010

Bangladesh’s Digital Journey by GURU -Prof. Syed Ahsanul Alam Parvez

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BERJAYAPrelude:
Globalization and rapid progress in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are bringing about fundamental changes in all aspects of our society. Remarkable changes have taken place in service sectors like

a) banking, b) hotels, c) hospitals, d) airlines, e) trains, f) buses, g) stock exchanges, h) news paper, i) tourism sector j) online job site k) e-education, l) e-library and other service sectors.

Changes in Government:

Similar changes are taking place in governments. Very recently our government introduced the district web portal so that citizens can remain more informed. Very slowly more and more government agencies are publishing their websites with limited information. Automations of our custom house is a good example of uses of ICT in e-service delivery through ICT.

Our response to these worldwide changes is to transform Bangladesh to a digital Bangladesh , which means delivering services to citizens more effectively online and by ICT. It means not asking the citizen for more information than necessary, or not asking the citizen to go to more than one agency for a specific service. It means service delivery organizations linking their back-ends to citizen rather than expecting the citizen to do so.

Definitely Digital governance will call for increased IT uses and enhance better connectivity in public and private sector.

Using ICT to Better Serve Citizens:

E-Government is not simply adding an “e” to government. It requires that we fundamentally re-think all aspects of government services to see how we can take advantage of technology to deliver services online to citizens. It also means that we leverage on ICT to change the nature and quality of governance to ensure that citizens can enjoy the online services sitting at home and office. It is about achieving, what we like to call, making online as much e-services possible and simplify service delivery procedure.

The Digital Journey:

Our honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared her political commitment to transform Bangladesh into a Digital Bangladesh. Her political commitment has a clear direction of transforming Bangladesh government to an e-government. The first phase of Digitalizing Bangladesh is directed at improving public administration through the effective use of IT by automation of works functions and reducing paperwork.

I refer here that we should gradually move towards a paperless office in the government sector. But we have to remember that after bathing the baby, we cannot throw the baby with the bathing water. We have to maintain hard copy of documents as back up till that time when data storage and data retrieval system in our country becomes dependable and full proof. In the second phase the emphasis subsequently should be shifted to inter-agency communication and co-ordination so as to provide integrated services to the public or citizens. I am referring here to transform our citizens to e-citizens, enjoying more and more services online both from the public and the private sector in the near future. In one of my report to the government, I have emphasized to create a number of Data Hubs to reduce redundancy in data capturing and promote data sharing within the Government. Very recently in Bangladesh , we saw the beginning of an adaptive civil service-wide network more known as the district portal.

Delivering e-services Online:

In the area of e-service delivery, we may identify four (4) levels of e-service based on the depth of interaction between the citizens and Government to assist our public sector agencies in developing their e-services capability. The 4 levels can be denoted as

a)”Publish”- At the lowest level of “Publish”, the interaction is one-way with the user receiving information online. b) “Interact”, c) “Transact” and d) “Integrate”- At the “Integrate” level, the organizational complexity is hidden from the customer.

To implement Digital Bangladesh, service delivery organizations must strive to deliver online every service that can be delivered electronically. E-service delivery organizations should also aim to deliver every e-service at the Transact level online, unless impossible, in which case it shall be offered at the Interact level. The transaction can be carried out by ATM cards, debit cards, credit cards or any other type of bank cards available in our country.

To-date, less than 1% of all feasible public services are online only. To mention a few are:

a) Online banking, b) Online hotel reservations, c) online hospital reservations, d) online train ticketing,

e) online air ticketing, f)) online bus ticketing, g) online library, etc.

But the number of these services is less than 20 to the best of my knowledge. It is interesting to know that Singapore already made more than 1650 online services available for their citizens out of about 2000 services identified by their government to be delivered online to the citizens of Singapore . I expect in Bangladesh , we will be able to put more and more services year by year for our citizens.

Hundreds of services required by the citizens may be made available online that are organized around customers’ needs. For this we need agencies to work to integrate information processes so as to provide a continuous online experience.

Pivotal to the quick and efficient development and deployment of e-services is developing a highly scalable and secure infrastructure layer, a rapid application development environment and a set of basic services such as payment, authentication and data exchange with legacy systems.

Delivering business services online:

In the business arena, services essential to the starting and the running of a business maybe also delivered online. This will helps promote greater productivity, efficiency, and convenience with simplified procedures and faster turnaround times. Issuance of

a) Trade license (TL),

b) TIN certificate,

c) Export license,

d) Import license,

e) Registrations of private company,

f) Membership certificate from Chambers of Commerce, and many others are examples of services that maybe given online. The application approval process involving different agencies maybe reduced to one third to that of the present.

Building a Digital Society:

Our Prime Ministers dream of a Digital Bangladesh is aimed to help citizens gain basic access to basic IT technologies. As such the government has to keep sharp eye to see if citizens are on the wrong side of the digital divide. Bangladesh government is committed to ensure that technology is made accessible and affordable to all, regardless of wealth, education, language, social background or ability.

To build this “Digital Bangladesh”, a term coined by our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina indicating towards a digital society, the government will have put in place various initiatives to ensure that there is sufficient public access and helping those who are away from the cities and with less financial means to have access to information highway.

The National ICT Policy 2009 is one such initiative to increase the ICT literacy of the nation as a whole. We have to run different programme to help the bureaucrats, academics, professionals, students, workers, home makers to learn the basic as how to get e-services or online services from the service providers. Initially they may have to be dependent on those who have IT literacy. Gradually, our IT literacy is increasing and use of ATMs, other online banking services, use of e-ticketing of air lines, buying train tickets online are the proofs of the slow diffusion of technology in our society. Very soon we will be able to buy bus tickets also online sitting at our home or office. Community service shall be increased by students and other IT literate segments to gradually literate the less privileged sections of the society.

From basic computer literacy to a IT trained workforce and gradually increasing the number of e-citizens is a process which might take time. But our progress has to be expedited to achieve our target to transform Bangladesh to a digital Bangladesh .

Till today we could not develop a robust nationwide broadband infrastructure. To ensure that all our citizens including the under privileged section to enjoy the benefits of online service delivery, we have to establish extensive IT network throughout the nation.

Many eCitizen Help Centres have to be developed nationwide and each eCitizen Help Centre should be equipped with computers offering free Internet access to e-services. Interested volunteers should be motivated to become eCitizen Helpers to guide citizens, such as the elderly and IT-illiterate, who may need assistance to access to online services.

Connecting Citizens:

In building Digital Bangladesh, we inevitably will have to shape the expectations of our citizens.

Moving forward, there are two areas that has to be focused on to delight our citizens and to connect citizens.

Firstly, in the area of service delivery, service delivery organizations will have to deliver accessible quality online services. Government has to ensure that technology is affordable and everyone who wants to be online is able to do so.

Secondly, I believe that ICT can be leveraged on as a powerful tool to engage the citizens as stakeholders to bring citizens closer together. As with online services, the emergence of new technologies significantly widens the scope for consulting with citizens and to facilitate citizen participation. I suggest to explore forming new channels using ICT to build the infrastructure essential to nurture national bonding and facilitate the building of a stronger sense of belonging to the country. This will appeal to a populace that is becoming more comfortable in making use of electronic channels for work and play.

Moving forward, we shall focus on establishing basic levels online delivery of services to citizens and in doing so we need greater consultation and participation of citizen.

Conclusion:

ICT has been a key enabler to offer online services to our citizens and businesses.

Our government has to be committed to continue to leverage on ICT through constantly reviewing the processes, improving the quality and accessibility of our online services and to connect citizens to bring them closer together. Besides the availability of services online, it is equally important to consider their acceptance and usage by the public. The benefits of online service can only be reaped if the public regard online service as the norm in transacting with public and private sector enterprise.
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Prof. Syed Ahsanul Alam is an internationally reputed policy strategist on e-Governance & Chairman, Department of Marketing, University of Chittagong and Chairman Center for Good Governance. Former Vice-Rector, Premier University and Vice-Dean, University of Science and Technology, Director, Sadharon Bima Corporation. He lectured widely at various Universities at home and abroad and has numerous International publication (See Internet) in his credit.

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guru @ October 2, 2010

Bangladesh, India Sign Deal on Feasibility Study of Two Coal-fired Plants

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Source :The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India have signed an agreement on appointment of consultants to carry out a feasibility study on setting up two coal-fired power plants in Khulna and Chittagong.

PDB Secretary Md Azizul Islam and NTPC Executive Director SN Goel signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at the PDB Bhaban in the city on Thursday (Sept 30).
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PDB Chairman SM Alamgir Kabir and NTPC Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Chowdhury were also present at the deal signing ceremony.

Under the agreement, the NTPC will carry out a feasibility study on setting up two coal-fired power plants, 1320-MW each, in Khulna and Chittagong.

The BPDB will have to pay US Dollar 2.4 lakh to the NTPC for carrying out the feasibility study.

Earlier, the joint technical team of Bangladesh and India has selected Chalna, near Khulna port, and Chittagong to install the proposed two 1320-MW coal-fired plants under a joint venture between the two countries.

Bangladesh and India signed an MoU on exchange of electricity during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in January last.

Under the Hasina-Manmohan landmark deal for the development of the country??s power sector, a joint technical team is working to install a power plant and set up grid line between the two countries to import 500 MW of power by the year of 2013.

A technical team from the NTPC already arrived in Dhaka on Sept 29 to discuss other issues with the power sector officials.

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guru @ October 2, 2010

Goverment has no plan to scrap caretaker system: Hasina

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The caretaker government of Bangladesh is a form of government system in which the country is ruled by a selected government for an interim period during transition from one government to another, after the completion tenure of the former. As the outgoing government hands over their power, the caretaker government comes into place. The main objective of the caretaker government is to create an environment in which an election can be held in a free and fair manner without any political influence of the outgoing government. The head of the Caretaker government is called the Chief Adviser and is selected by the President, and the Chief Adviser selects the other advisers. The administration is generally distributed between the advisers. The Chief Adviser and the other advisers are committed for their activities to the President
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government so far had no plan to scrap the caretaker government system despite the “bitter experiences” of the past two years of interim regime.

“We have not thought about changing the system,” she told a press meet at Bangladesh Permanent Mission in New York on Monday at the fag end of her nine-day tour of the United States to join the 65th UN General Assembly.

But, she said, there was no denying the fact that “everybody is annoyed with the bitter experience of the past two years of interim regime in the name of the caretaker government.”

Sheikh Hasina added that everything would be done in line with the people’s desire while a parliamentary committee, constituted several months ago to suggest constitutional amendments in line with two landmark Supreme Court judgments declaring illegal the post 1975 military regimes, might have their own observations about the caretaker system.

Asked for her comments about the release of the corruption suspects who were exposed to trial under emergency rules during the past military-backed interim administration, the Prime Minister said they were released under court orders because of technical faults in lodging the cases. “But the Anti-Corruption Commission is working independently, though the main opposition party is out to save them,” she said.

Replying to a question on exposure of perpetrators of 1971 crimes against humanity, Sheikh Hasina said “this is not symbolic trial” as the war criminals would be tried under law following investigations.

“They will be tried under law for which we were elected to power with huge mandate, particularly from youths . . . we staged their symbolic trial through ‘gano adalat’ in early 1990s and now they are being exposed to real trial,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina, however, said the trial of war criminals was a “continued process” like the trial of Second World War criminals which staggered over decades to expose to justice the perpetrators wherever they were found.

The Prime Minister said during the post independence Bangabandhu government 11,000 suspected war criminals were in jail to face the trial while charges were constituted against another 22,000.

But, she said, after the August 15, 1975 carnage, the successive military regime of General Ziaur Rahman freed them under martial law proclamation and scrapped the entire process.

“They returned the citizenship of the people that was scrapped for opposing Bangladesh’s independence, rehabilitated them socially and all these were done by Ziaur Rahman, though he himself was a freedom fighter,” the Premier said.

Replying to another question regarding an old demand of US expatriate Bangladeshis for resuming Biman’s Dhaka-New York flight, the Premier said Bangladesh Biman had placed orders to procure aircraft from Boeing company which were expected to be delivered by 2011.

“Soon after the aircraft are received, the route will be reopened,” she said.

Asked about her government’s plans to ban religion-based politics while the trial of war criminals was underway, she said the two things were separate issues.

“Bangladesh is a secular country . . . but the election commission would decide under law which party was competent to do election politics,” Sheikh Hasina said.

Earlier, Sheikh Hasina spoke at a reception at the own building of Bangladesh’s permanent mission, which she had opened last year, where Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khondaker, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni, parliamentary chief whip Vice-Principal Abdus Shahid, among others, joined the reception.

Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr AK Abdul Momen hosted the reception also attended by leading Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Nations alongside the mission staff.

History
A caretaker government was first introduced in 1990 when three party alliances jointly made a demand for it. It was constitutionalized in 1996 by the Parliament dominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party. A Caretaker government is headed by a Chief Adviser who enjoys the same power as the regular prime minister of the country except defence matters. The Advisors function as Ministers. Since 1996, the Caretaker government has held the elections of 1996, 2001 and 2008.

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guru @ September 30, 2010

Bangladesh plans billion-USD projects to develop telecom sector

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The Bangladeshi government as part of its efforts to develop the country’s telecommunications sector has taken move to implement seven projects at a cost of nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars, an official said Wednesday.

The telecommunications ministry official told media that the projects include establishment of a telecommunication network based on next generation networking technology at a cost of 17.25 billion taka ( 25 million U.S. dollars and broadband wireless network costing 5.49 billion taka (7.84 million U.S. dollars).

He said the projects also include expansion of internet information network involving 2.909 billion taka, introducing 3G network costing 19.09 billion taka, building e-post centers at a cost of 5.97 billion taka and IT-based post offices costing 6.04 billion taka.

The seventh is to develop optical fibre cable networks in 1,000 unions, the lowest tire of local government in Bangladesh, costing 7.59 billion taka, he added.

The official could not tell the time frame for completion of the projects on which the government officials concerned are working.

He, however, said many more projects for developing sector are also under planning stage to help transform Bangladesh into a digital country by 2021 which Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her party’s election manifesto in December 2008 pledged.

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guru @ September 29, 2010