Public service PR

Three basic decisions are required immediately: (1) Speed up the administrative reforms decentralise the civil service (and separate the judiciary); (2) Open a Training Institute for Public Relations in the public sector; and (3) Transfer most SDEs to the private sector (the government doing less and less business to find the time to look after the planning needs of a modern, efficient public service, in this densely populated country of 1,000 persons per sq. km). What is the work load of an official, population-wise? This data has never been released. The various systems losses within the government services are huge, hidden and scattered. A scientific survey is necessary to look at the tip of the iceberg.

The basic revolutions need political consensus at the national level; but strangely enough, the parliament is being boycotted by successive oppositions, and the politicians in power are very fond of working more through the back doors than transparently and openly though the front doors.

What is the great hurry in pushing through the Modhupur forest recreation project in the name of eco-park, in blind imitation of western concepts? Perhaps it is a business idea of some vested group? The DS of Jan 28 exposed the huge losses in the gas pipeline project to connect over the Jamuna Bridge. The piping of gas in the huge, neglected Northern region is being impeded due to lack of foreign currency, which is again due to the lopsided export and investment policies from time to time. The way the popular cycle-rickshaw issue is being handled at the policy level is rather amateurish. Ad hoc inspirations just do not count!

Another point: the jobs and responsibilities of the MPs may be reviewed an MP is all too powerful autocratically at the local level.

Shatter the current negative image of noting system and carrying files in the secretariat, make use of IT, telephone and e-mail to convey decisions and get feedback, not only from the field officials, but also the citizens at the middle and lower levels (the rich and the political workers have enough influence for personal contacts at higher levels).