BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a participatory meeting on Tuesday unequivocally called for ensuring transparency, accountability and citizens’ participation in different development works is vital to establish good governance in the local government institutions.
Integrated development planning can be a vital means of making the existing local government institutions and the Upazila Parishad and Union Parishad (UP) in particular effective and accountable.
The discussants came up with the observations while addressing the annual coordination meeting of the ‘Integrated Development under Efficient and Accountable Local Governance (EALG) Project’ held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) office on Tuesday.
District administration arranged the meeting in association with the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-SDC. The speakers observed effective and meaningful UZPs and UPs is the precondition to reasonable improvement of living and livelihood conditions of the grassroots population. So, there is no alternative to make those up to the mark.
Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil addressed the meeting as the chief guest with deputy director of Local Government Division Shahana Akhter Jahan in the chair.
More than 80 persons comprising UZP Chairmen and Vice-chairmen, Upazila Nirbahi Officers, UP Chairmen, upazila officials from all eight line departments and members of the civil society joined the meeting. Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension Shamsul Haque, Deputy Director of the Department of Family Planning Dr Abdul Mannan, Executive Director of Local Government Engineering Division Saniul Haque, Deputy Director of the Department of Women Affairs Shobnom Shirin and Upazila Chairman Anil Kumar Sarker also spoke.
Speakers at a participatory meeting on Tuesday unequivocally called for ensuring transparency, accountability and citizens’ participation in different development works is vital to establish good governance in the local government institutions.
Integrated development planning can be a vital means of making the existing local government institutions and the Upazila Parishad and Union Parishad (UP) in particular effective and accountable.
The discussants came up with the observations while addressing the annual coordination meeting of the ‘Integrated Development under Efficient and Accountable Local Governance (EALG) Project’ held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) office on Tuesday.
District administration arranged the meeting in association with the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-SDC. The speakers observed effective and meaningful UZPs and UPs is the precondition to reasonable improvement of living and livelihood conditions of the grassroots population. So, there is no alternative to make those up to the mark.
Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil addressed the meeting as the chief guest with deputy director of Local Government Division Shahana Akhter Jahan in the chair.
More than 80 persons comprising UZP Chairmen and Vice-chairmen, Upazila Nirbahi Officers, UP Chairmen, upazila officials from all eight line departments and members of the civil society joined the meeting. Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension Shamsul Haque, Deputy Director of the Department of Family Planning Dr Abdul Mannan, Executive Director of Local Government Engineering Division Saniul Haque, Deputy Director of the Department of Women Affairs Shobnom Shirin and Upazila Chairman Anil Kumar Sarker also spoke.
