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22 January 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Shamsher Chowdhury, On e-mail
22 January 2004, 18:00 PM
I had been reading with interest your reports on the PERC published (Jan. 19 and 20). The Public Expenditure Review Committee (PERC) should be congratulated for a job well done, particularly against the popular perception that committees are created only to buy time with the sole purpose of killing any or all issues controversial and have the potential of causing embarrassment to the establishment. Looks like this committee report has seen the light of the day in its true colour and perspective.

What I find most interesting is that the report also mentions the involvement of the secretary of the concerned Ministry in the said corruption scandal. This report also confirms the findings of an earlier independent report about the state of over all corruption in Bangladesh, which had indicated that, higher the level of authority, more the corruption. What to speak of our lawmakers even the civil bureaucracy is now competing with one another in corrupt practices.

In all this what shocks me is the rationale or the mindset which prompts individuals to resort to such practices particularly people who have already amassed considerable resources to last a second generation and beyond. To me it is nothing but a reflection of their greed and lust for more and more.

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The present government for its own sake should take serious note of the committee's findings and take stern corrective measures on an urgent basis. I find it absurd that an order of a democratically elected Prime Minster of a people's republic is ignored and set aside and that no one even the PM herself is bothered about it.