Golam Ashraf :
At present, Bangladesh requires many trained and efficient officers, staff members and workers which includes many Educational Instructors for Universities, Associate Instructors for colleges and Assistant Instructors for Schools; Superintendents for Universities, deputy superintendents for colleges and inspectors for schools in the Education Department; appointing doctors, nurses, medical assistants, technicians, registered ayahs, ward boys, cooks, ambulance and micro bus drivers, floor sweepers and bathroom cleaners, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists by the department of health; hiring sufficient number of traffic sergeants, traffic policewomen and traffic policemen for the foot over bridges, zebra crossings, intersections, Roads and Highways, installers of traffic signboards and road markers; posting of several sub-inspectors as Investigating Officer (IO) at each police station, forensic experts and laboratory assistants at CID headquarters affiliated hospital; educating, training and orienting bus drivers and conductors, truck drivers and helpers at site offices of BRTA, appointing structural and highway engineers at Road Transport and Bridges Departments, architects and town planners for urbanisation; naval architects, nautical officers and marine engineers for merchant navy, master mariners and ship surveyors for the harbour master of the seaports and BIWTA; aircraft pilots, cabin crew, ground crew and air traffic controllers for the airports; Project Managers, station superintendents, shift supervisors, scientific officers, principal engineers, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers, bricklayers, masons, fitters, plumbers, carpenters and painters for the nuclear power plants; interior decorators, landscapers, translators, tour guides, stewards, waiters and chefs for the tourism sector; superintendents, deputy superintendents, assistant superintendents and inspectors of rivers, canals and ponds, streets, roads and lanes, playing fields, parks and waiting areas, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic laboratories, restaurants, snack bars and tea stalls; immigration and passports, export promotion, diplomatic service, border management and maritime zone patrolling and security services from its over millions of earlier, later and the fresh university graduates. The examination and the selection process had to be administered routinely and successively by the existing Public Service Commission.
Next would be the task for constructing wherever required speed-breakers, repairing and widening the Roads and Highways, culverts and bridges and scrap the worn out trucks and buses whose book value became nil for the successive yearly depreciation so that the new vehicles could be effectively utilised for transporting the goods quickly from the place of growing, producing and manufacturing and carry the goods to the retail and wholesale outlets, godowns, railway stations, airports, river and seaports and also by the buses transporting the variety types of commuters safely from one destination to another across the country and also the bordering countries.
Now, Bangladesh has USD 30.00 billion in foreign exchange reserves. This year three billion dollars must be utilised for the recruiting and training of officers, staff members and workers, purchasing office equipment and furniture, carriages inwards and outwards, payments for utility bills, buying petrol, oil and lubricant, compressed natural gas and Liquefied Natural Gas, wages and salaries, purchase of new motorcycles, motor cars and micro buses, office and residential buildings. Also, four billion US dollars could be honestly and wisely spent for implementing similarly the ‘dhaka chaka’ bus network for plying in the entire eight divisions of Bangladesh originating departures and returning to the headquarters on the same evening. And further three billion dollars should be spent for the development of information technology parks now under the process of implementation across the various regions of the country.
Finally, these days Bangladesh is getting near to surplus with the cultivation of potatoes and producing sufficient hen and duck eggs!
Therefore, this year two billion dollars must be spend through the ministry of local government and rural development for setting up neatly designed and suitably furnished medium-sized restaurants with standardised washroom, pantry and kitchen in the nook and corner of every union, Pourashava and City Corporation for selling fluffy puri prepared by overnight seasoned flour dough and every morning fried in the clean soybean oil, freshly prepared bhaji mixed with pachforon, aloo matar, shosha and lanka mixed with tatul chutney, sweet shuji halwa treated with cow’s milk ghee, parata, omelet, aloo dum, booter dal with khashir matha, shingara, samosa, potato chop filled with scrambled egg, diced onion and green chili, chicken and mutton cutlet and cow’s milk tea mixed with crushed seeds of cardamom suitable both for the quick moving dynamic young ones as well as the slow moving experienced senior citizens.
It won’t take much time for Bangladesh to become a middle income country when various types of voters and also all the citizens by and large would be catered with different kinds of prepared delicacies throughout the country.
(Golam Ashraf lives in Gulshan, Dhaka)
