BSS, Rangpur :
Speakers at a coordination meeting here stressed for comprehensive efforts to create mass public awareness against corruption for launching social movement in building a corruption free Bangladesh.
They put special emphasis on educating the young generations, including school level students, about the values of honesty to inspire them in becoming patriotic citizens and having positive impacts on their behavior against corruption.
District Corruption Prevention Committee (DCPC) with the assistances of the District Combined Office of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) arranged the coordination meeting for the district and upazila level Corruption Prevention Committees (CPCs) at Circuit House auditorium in the city recently.
RDRS Bangladesh extended cooperation in arranging the meeting under its Justice Reform & Corruption Prevention (JRCP) Project being implemented with German Development Cooperation (GIZ) funding with assistance of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
President of the DCPC and former Registrar of Begum Rokeya University Professor Mozammel Haque presided over the meeting jointly moderated by Deputy Director of Rangpur Combined Office of the ACC Kamrul Ahsan and General Secretary of DCPC Akbar Hossain.
All members of the DCPC, Presidents and General Secretaries of the upazila level CPCs of Kawnia, Pirgachha, Mithapukur, Badarganj, Pirganj, Taraganj and Gangachara upazilas participated in the meeting.
The meeting was arranged as per direction of the Head Office of the ACC for forming a Coordination Committee of the district and upazila level CPCs to further accelerate corruption prevention activities in a more coordinated manner in the district.
After discussions, the meeting unanimously formed a 27-member Coordination Committee of the district and upazila level CPCs with Professor Mozammel Haque and Akbar Hossain as its President and General Secretary respectively.
All other eleven members of the DCPC, Presidents and General Secretaries of the upazila level CPCs are the other members of the newly formed Corruption Prevention Committee.
Deputy Director of Rangpur Combined Office of the ACC Kamrul Ahsan narrated the goals and objectives of the meeting, role and activities of the newly formed Coordination Committee.
The speakers stressed for observing different national days and anti-corruption events by the CPCs, arranging face-to-face programmes for government departments, local government bodies, other service providing organisations and institutions to bring accountability in their activities.
They put emphasis on inspiring and involving the people from every sphere of life for creating a social movement to prevent corruption through stopping misuse of power and public money by a fewer section of government officials and employees.
