Reporting on ministries
We are disappointed to have observed that so far all the reporting about the performance of the different ministries in the last 4 years of the present government has been negative. It's not all that bad. The way all these reporters have written simply suggests that they are not objective. There are a lot of good work done by the present government which your reporters and columnists do not appear to have recognised. For example, LGED's sanitation campaign, allocation of funds for Union Parishad, appointment of graduate UP secretaries, Education ministry's anti copying campaign, Environment ministry's anti pollution campaign, Drive against food adulteration, Home Ministry's anti terrorism campaign etc should have received due coverage. I suppose reporting should be unbiased and along with the bad sides the good sides of any event should also be projected. I don't belong to any political group but will definitely vouch that the government of Begum Khaleda Zia is much more committed and more result-oriented than any other government in the past. There are of course a few failures but given our socio-political environment, I suppose the present government's performance is not bad. Small wonder, the finance minister is very vocal about the media reporting!
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