Injustice everywhere
This is in reference to your news item 'Of a blessed bureaucrat' (DS 27.10.2003). Ferdous Ara is the very embodiment of what is happening in our country everyday, whereas a good BCS (Admin) officer with a good track record (twenty years of service) is rotting in an obscure corner.
Foreign trips are for shopping and sight seeing. These foreign trips have no relation to the job they do. Sycophancy is the only qualification needed.
The size of the Ministry has been increased by three hundred per cent (60+) and the size of the government has been increased by five hundred per cent. But has the efficiency of the government increased? Has the misery of the people, or their burgeoning poverty been reduced? Let us not go in for the statistics; let us see the miseries of the people in our own neighbourhood.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. I'm talking of Amdia village, Rajshahi town, and the Dhaka city where I spend some of my time. Ninety per cent people of this country are being crushed by the steam roller of poverty.