Hiding good news ?

The news was about sending Tsunami relief to Indonesia and Sri Lanka under a WFP initiative to feed and save people in those areas, hit by the worst disaster of the last year. WFP is using a US cargo aircraft to dispatch seven hundred tonnes of high-nutrition biscuits, made in Bangladesh.

The news reads, "Bangladesh was chosen as the source of the biscuits as it has the largest school feeding programme in the world." Interestingly, this was the observation of the WFP, and the local representative of that organisation made this comment.

The most important thing that he mentioned was that Bangladesh is "best capable of producing such a quantity of biscuits in an emergency situation." The large quantity is the amount that the WFP shall take from Bangladesh for the Tsunami relief operations.

Bangladesh is always portrayed as a poor nation in the South Asian region which is under water all the year round, and poverty is so worse that the people in the country die of hunger.

This incident shows that this type of image is no longer there, and Bangladesh is now capable of helping others in their bad times as well. Some countries also think that disaster management in Bangladesh is also good.

I do not know for which good reason the newspapers in Bangladesh are very keen to paint a bad image of Bangladesh when we are doing relatively better than others in many areas.

Bangladesh's role in Tsunami relief efforts is very praiseworthy and should be highlighted in the press adequately.