UNB, Khulna :
As part of its ongoing anti-graft campaign, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has taken a move to form Satata Sangha at 1,084 schools of the coastal districts aiming to help schoolchildren practise honesty. The national anti-graft agency will also reconstitute its corruption prevention committees at 23 upazilas in Khulna,
Satkhira and Bagerhat districts, official sources said.
Deputy director Abdul Hye of Khulna Zila Office said reconstitution of corruption prevention committees and formation of Satata Sanghas will begin this month. Apart from prevention activities, he said, the ACC continues its probes and investigations against graft suspects. “But, filing cases against graft suspects cannot prevent corruption at all. That’s why the ACC has given emphasis on prevention activities,” the ACC official said. ACC deputy assistant director Md Faisal Hossain, who is involved in its prevention works, said the members of Satata Sanghas will play a role in preventing corruption through their social activities.
He said, they will participate in anti-corruption activities like debate competitions, cultural functions and other social programmes aiming to make people aware of adverse impacts of corruption. Abdul Hye said the Commission will open three ‘Satata Stores’ (Integrity Shops) at schools of the three coastal to help schoolchildren exercise honesty.
Satata Store, a unique move of the Commission, keeps the goods that school kids usually buy in display. There is no seller at the stores as schoolchildren take items they want from the shops and put the prices of the items in the designated cash box on their own. The ACC has already opened four such stores across the country. ACC commissioner Dr Md Nasiruddin Ahmed earlier told UNB that the Commission has a plan to set up Satata stores at two schools-one of boys and another of girls-in every district on pilot basis.
As part of its ongoing anti-graft campaign, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has taken a move to form Satata Sangha at 1,084 schools of the coastal districts aiming to help schoolchildren practise honesty. The national anti-graft agency will also reconstitute its corruption prevention committees at 23 upazilas in Khulna,
Satkhira and Bagerhat districts, official sources said.
Deputy director Abdul Hye of Khulna Zila Office said reconstitution of corruption prevention committees and formation of Satata Sanghas will begin this month. Apart from prevention activities, he said, the ACC continues its probes and investigations against graft suspects. “But, filing cases against graft suspects cannot prevent corruption at all. That’s why the ACC has given emphasis on prevention activities,” the ACC official said. ACC deputy assistant director Md Faisal Hossain, who is involved in its prevention works, said the members of Satata Sanghas will play a role in preventing corruption through their social activities.
He said, they will participate in anti-corruption activities like debate competitions, cultural functions and other social programmes aiming to make people aware of adverse impacts of corruption. Abdul Hye said the Commission will open three ‘Satata Stores’ (Integrity Shops) at schools of the three coastal to help schoolchildren exercise honesty.
Satata Store, a unique move of the Commission, keeps the goods that school kids usually buy in display. There is no seller at the stores as schoolchildren take items they want from the shops and put the prices of the items in the designated cash box on their own. The ACC has already opened four such stores across the country. ACC commissioner Dr Md Nasiruddin Ahmed earlier told UNB that the Commission has a plan to set up Satata stores at two schools-one of boys and another of girls-in every district on pilot basis.
