Followup on "Two building structures in the horizon of Dhaka that still stand as a sign of disrespect to rule of law"
First read the following news item from bdnews24.com titled "Tejgaon link road to be opened for traffic on Dec 16: official"
The most likely outcome will be that this particular secretary will not even be there to be held accountable when nothing will be achieved when the time arrives. He will be comfortably transferred to another position. Thats why, they have chosen a secretary to announce this, not the people in RAJUK who aren't likely to be transferred.
Moreover, there is another aspect. The report mentions ""The major portion of the demolition work is done. To expedite the rest of the demolition work, RAJUK has imported machinery."
What machinery? Rajuk high-ups er bank account crook korle tu ei rokom 100 ta building demolish korar taka jogar hobe within a day. Why the delay then?
Readers must remember the speed and seemingly inhuman eviction of slum dwellers without proper notification and precautionary measures. If the Cheif Adviser and his collegues still do not understand the reason behind the lapse of performance now and
then, that would be unfortunate. It is the corrupt and morally empty members of police administration, burecrats and most importantly, the so-called professionals (the engineers, the doctors, the lawyers, etc) who have forgot their professional oath and over the time,
they have learned how to co-exists with the corrupt system that our politicians have allowed to grow.
These professionals have to be hit very hard, for some of them, it should be so hard that others take a lesson. In our view, RAJUK is an ideal organization to take that exemplary hit. If the government misses this opportunity, it will come back to haunt them, make no
mistake about that. More importantly, if you give a good lesson for those culprits in RAJUK, you will do a big favour to them, to their family and children. So, do not hesitate to make to blow some serious blow if you can identify the reasons behind the difference in speed
between the demolition of slums and demolition of the Rangs Building. Do this favour to the nation.
On a sober note, the claim about the machiner import is probably a big lie. The possibility is that the machinery was there from the very beginning, but they are not using it. Another possibility is that a process has just started to import the machinery. However, the report says that the machinery is already "imported". Some journalist might dig into this report. Moreover, if the machinery is already
imported, why not demolish it now. Why you will need to wait "by November"? What does it mean by November? Does it mean before November 1st? OR does it mean before November 30?
If the building is demolished so late, the project will not probably be ready to be opened up by December 16, as the report claims.
More importantly, this declaration is big enough for the people of Bangladesh and for the people living in Dhaka, that this declaration can be done through a big ceremony in Bijoy Soroni by the Cheif Adviser or the other advisors responsible for the ministry. Why can't they do that? You have to ask the bureucrats for that, because it is increasingly becoming clear that the advisers aren't running the show,
its the bureacrats who are running the show. Off course, we could be wrong. Only time will say which take is right and which ones are wrong.
To the BGMEA leaders:
All we can tell you is this: If you think that you can be winner, by making the nation and the people loser, you could not be more wrong. Its not too late yet to correct the wrongs of the past. You are enough media-savvy not to wait for that day to arrive when it would be too late to unwind, we hope.
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columnists in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
Thanks for your time,
Innovation Line
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Send it to BGMEA President and other directors at this link:
Also send it to the FBCCI people at this link:
Last but not the least, send it to the ACC:
The more of you forward it to them, the less will be the need to go back to street agitation. Use ICT to practice democracy.
http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=2&id=59578
Tejgaon link road to be opened for traffic on Dec 16: official
Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 8:00 pm BdST
Dhaka, August 12 (bdnews24.com) - The link road connecting Bijoy Swarani with Tejgaon will be opened for traffic on Dec 16, a government official said Tuesday.
"For this, the demolition of Rangs Bhaban will be completed by November," said housing and public works secretary ASM Rashidul Hai.
Hai informed reporters, after visiting the site, about the progress of the demolition work and construction of link road.
"The major portion of the demolition work is done. To expedite the rest of the demolition work, RAJUK has imported machinery."
Rashidul Hai said a total of 23 buildings will have to come down for the construction of the new link road.
"We have already demolished nine buildings. Five more buildings will have to be knocked down by August 20. But there are court cases against demolition of nine others."
"We hope the court will not give any ruling that may hamper the government's good initiative."
He brushed aside any allegations of changing the original plan to save a 'particular building' from demolition.
"This is not true. The plan has been changed to reduce the construction costs, not to favour any special quarter."
"The government has to compensate for demolishing each and every private building. If the road is made on government land then the cost can be reduced," he said.
--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Md. Taher@yahoo.com <Md. Taher@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Md. Taher@yahoo.com <Md. Taher@yahoo.com>
Subject: [uttorshuri] Re: Two building structures in the horizon of Dhaka that still stand as a sign of di
To: uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 3:00 AM
Thanks Innovation Line,
Thanks for your courageous stance on corruption and creative ideas about what to do with these symbols of blatant corruption and negligence to public interests. One of my ideas was to turn one of these buildings into a Museum (or Monument of Corruption) for people to trace the details of corruption involved in these and other hogh profile projects. This might help our future generations know and abhor such practices... I could give more details about the project, but there are specialists like you - who can perhaps give more professional inputs in such an enterprise if ever taken up by the right authorities..
I consider these two buildings as symbols (monuments?) of high stake corruption and evil power forces that blatantly dared and defied rule of law. These two buildings; one is half destroyed but the other one is still raising its arrogant head above - and saying loudly to ordinary citizens, "dare touch us!". The other part of the story is - all seem to be waiting for the time to "return to democracy" - and things would again be their way. The half broken building will stay and even demand compensation - which would be duly paid by a clique of corrupt "leaders" and shared between them. I am all for return to a rule by elected representatives and oppose the current extended emergency rule. But how could I not appreciate their 'initiatives' to shake the foundations of some of the corporate corruption houses? Looking at things recently though, my trust on them are shaken. Please refer to the implications of sudden flurry of bails obtained by some high ranking corruption moguls!!! These things make one wonder, would breaking of Rangs building be ever completed? Will Hatirjheel canal and road project remain just a dream!!
I hear political leaders speaking daily against the emergency rule, but not making specific pledges to ensure the public that return to democracy would mean end to corruption and wholesale plunder! I did not hear one political party saying categorically, e.g., BGMEA building will be removed and culprits involved in its authorisation process will be punished. No, they would not say this, because they would use their (such "power houses") support to climb the power ladder... And there we go again, round the vicious cycle. I wish I could offer some creative ideas like yours for a solution. I am sorry, I am too frustrated to do that at the moment.
With apologies,
Taher.
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