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You are tagging the wrong people :D

Let me correct it for you:

@idune @Al-zakir @Luffy 500 @MBI Munshi @asad71

No, no. All 7 of you are equally anti-BD. Two of you cannot tolerate the development of BD and the remaining 5 cannot tolerate the very existence of a free BD. However, the way @idune writes I have every reason to believe that he is an Indian. You seven should make a close team to support each other.
 
No, no. All 7 of you are equally anti-BD. Two of you cannot tolerate the development of BD and the remaining 5 cannot tolerate the very existence of a free BD. However, the way @idune writes I have every reason to believe that he is an Indian. You seven should make a close team to support each other.

I never am against the genuine (and I stress genuine) development of BD (it actually benefits India for BD to develop given you will hold more of your population within your own borders). What I am against is your lot constant denigration of India or any other bogeyman in order to justify some lack of development in BD....instead of holding your own people (and blatant cover ups like BBS) accountable first and foremost. That is where everything starts, otherwise why would I have just posted for example that long post about BD power plants w.r.t coal and why did you give it a thumbs up?

But your simple reactionary style labelling does explain why BD is so polarised. You call idune as "Indian" and he calls you the same in return. Then you wonder why India plays with you like a toy without even really trying. Seriously, BD elections are going to be lots of fun, you lot never learn.
 
No, no. All 7 of you are equally anti-BD. Two of you cannot tolerate the development of BD and the remaining 5 cannot tolerate the very existence of a free BD. However, the way @idune writes I have every reason to believe that he is an Indian. You seven should make a close team to support each other.

yo @bluesky, you can not hide awami league behind Bangladesh label and call anti awami league stand as anti Bangladesh. Those idiotic awami mantra expired long back. you are class A indian awami league dalal BUT handicapped with false flag narrative and line. Only looser like you can think to advance any point with awami lie.
 
yo @bluesky, you can not hide awami league behind Bangladesh label and call anti awami league stand as anti Bangladesh. Those idiotic awami mantra expired long back. you are class A indian awami league dalal BUT handicapped with false flag narrative and line. Only looser like you can think to advance any point with awami lie.

I wonder why you say that you are an anti Awami when you are so fond of India. You are so fond of, that you never dare to criticize India. So, I believe that you are camouflaging your true Indian identity by talking ill against AL all the time. But, now you are exposed.
 

বাংলাদেশ অধ্যয়ন কেন্দ্র - Center for Bangladesh Studies(CBS)
বাংলাদেশে আয় বৈষম্য ।। সংবাদ সম্মেলন, রিপোর্ট প্রকাশ ও মতবিনিময়
Difference between Earnings. Press Conference.
স্টেট অফ বাংলাদেশ' রিপোর্ট সিরিজের অংশ হিসেবে বাংলাদেশ অধ্যয়ন কেন্দ্র সাম্প্রতিক বাংলাদেশের আয় বৈষম্যের ধারা, গতি-প্রকৃতি, প্রবণতা, কারণ ও প্রতিকারভাবনা নিয়ে প্রথম গবেষণাপত্রটি তৈরী করেছে।
সিবিএস গবেষণাপত্রটি আগস্টের ১৯ তারিখে সকলের সামনে প্রকাশ করতে যাচ্ছে।
 
@idune Don't criticize India? :lol: Man, you must take a look at his previous postings. He is as Razakar as anyone can get.

Why do you measure patriotism based on who criticize India better.

No worries, Bangladesh supreme court chief justice Surenda Kumar Sinha, who is an hindu, also being called a "Razakar". Kader Siddiqui a decorated freedom fighter also being called "Razakar". Their guilt is same because they opposed awami league and its anti Bangladesh activities.

from kid to adults, they consider india as enemy, meaning entire Bangladeshi population is "razakar" by indian definition. What indian al-cowda crowd don't realize is that, it does not matter what indians think, what matters is that how Bangladeshis see india - an eternal enemy.

Recognizing india is enemy - is the biggest accomplishment for Bangladeshis

Recognizing india is enemy of Bangladesh - is the biggest accomplishment for Bangladeshis, that was the assessment made by popular English daily editor. Nurul Kabil who represent ultra-secular camp in Bangladesh made his observation when a TV talk show asked questions about india Bangladesh relation and latest visit of Hasina.

He clearly spelled out, india can keep few puppets but absolute majority of Bangladeshis see india as enemy. According to the editor, his observation is based on meeting and talking to people from cross section of Bangladeshi society – ordinary people, political leaders, professionals and youths. Renowned editor made case by case analysis how india made itself enemy to people of Bangladesh and to Bangladesh as a country.

1) India depriving Bangladesh from rightful share of water in common rivers using one pretext after another.

2) India blatantly interfered in Bangladesh election, installed an autocratic regime and destroyed democratic process.

3) Bangladesh is source of $15 billion dollars export and remittance earning for india. Yet, india prevent Bangladesh export of even few million dollars using tariff, para tariff and using other flimsy excuses.

4) India relentlessly killing Bangladeshis at border.

5) India gained corridor through Bangladesh using awami league regime, in virtually free of cost.

6) But india prevents Bangladeshi companies to do business with Nepal and Bhutan by putting condition and asking to do business through indian companies.

7) India blatantly interfered in Bangladesh election and installed an autocratic regime.

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When asked how about loans india provided to Bangladesh. Editor explained indian loans is just another way india trying to increase sale of indian goods and services and create a captive market. Because condition for indian loan is buying Indian good and services with the money. According to the Editor, indian foreign policy establishment and policy heavily directed by age old “Chanyka” and that cannot be base for any friendship with any country, specially with South Asian countries.

Video of the interview:

Interview article in Bangla:

ভারত আমাদের শত্রু বুঝতে পারাই বড় অর্জন -নূরুল কবীর
| প্রকাশের সময় : ২৬ এপ্রিল, ২০১৭, ১২:০০ এএম

স্টাফ রিপোর্টার : প্রখ্যাত সাংবাদিক ইংরেজি দৈনিক নিউ এইজ সম্পাদক নূরুল কবির বলেছেন, আমাদের প্রধানমন্ত্রীর দিল্লি সফরে বাংলাদেশের অর্জন নেই বলা যাবে না। বড় অর্জন হলো ভারতকে চিনতে পারা। ভারত যে আমাদের (বাংলাদেশ) শত্রু এটার প্রমাণ হয়ে গেছে শেখ হাসিনার দিল্লি সফরে। বাংলাদেশের ভূ-খন্ডের মধ্য দিয়ে একরাজ্য থেকে আরেক রাজ্যে ভারত দ্রব্যাদি, পণ্য নিয়ে যাচ্ছে। এতে খারাপ কিছু দেখি না; গোঁড়ামির কিছু নেই। নেপাল এবং ভুটানের সঙ্গে ব্যবসা করতে চাইলে তারা মধ্যস্বত্বভোগীর মতো ব্যবসা চায় কেন? ভারতের পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় দিল্লির চাণক্যপুরীতে। তারা চাণক্যনীতিতে অভ্যস্ত। তাই ভারত কখনোই প্রতিবেশী দেশের বন্ধু হতে পারে না। গতকাল চ্যানেল আই-এর টকশো তৃতীয় মাত্রায় তিনি এসব কথা বলেন। তিনি বলেন, দেশে আওয়ামী লীগ ধর্ম নিয়ে রাজনীতি করছে; আর বিএনপি করছে ধর্মকেন্দ্রিক রাজনীতি। জিল্লুর রহমানের সঞ্চালনায় টকশোর নুরুল কবিরের বক্তব্যের চুম্বক অংশ তুলে ধরা হলো।
নূরুল কবির বলেন, প্রধানমন্ত্রীর ভারত সফর একটা দিক থেকে সফল। একটা দেশের দু’একটা রাজনৈতিক দল এবং গুটিকয়েক বুদ্ধিজীবী যেই প্রতিবেশীকে বন্ধু রাষ্ট্র হিসেবে চিহ্নিত করে। তারা যে আসলে বন্ধু নয়, এদেশের মানুষ এ সফরের মাধ্যমে এটা বুঝতে পেরেছে। রাষ্ট্র যেহেতু একটি রাজনৈতিক ব্যবস্থা, সে রাষ্ট্রকে টিকে থাকার জন্য তার যেমন শত্রæ-মিত্র চেনা দরকার। রাষ্ট্র থাকলেই ব্যবস্থা-বাণিজ্য, বিদ্যা-শিক্ষা, আয়-উন্নতি হওয়ার কথা। ফলে একটা বৃহৎ প্রতিবেশী যে বন্ধু নয়, সেটা বুঝতে পারা একটা ভীষণ রাজনৈতিক সাফল্য।
কেননা তিস্তা নদীসহ ৫৪টি অভিন্ন নদীর পানি ন্যায্য হিসা আন্তর্জাতিক আইন অনুযায়ী বাংলাদেশের পাওয়ার কথা তার কোনোটিই হয়নি। তিস্তা চুক্তি হয় হয় করেও শেষ পর্যন্ত হয়নি। ভারতের কিছু কিছু মিডিয়া যারা বাংলাদেশের স্বার্থবিরোধী তারা এবং এখানেও (বাংলাদেশে) কেউ কেউ মিনমিনিয়ে বলার চেষ্টা করেছে, যে মমতা ব্যানার্জি নাকি এটা করতে দিচ্ছে না। আমরা সবাই জানি, ভারতের সংবিধান অনুযায়ী বিদেশের সঙ্গে সম্পর্ক তৈরি করার ক্ষেত্রে অথবা সম্পর্ক নষ্ট করার ক্ষেত্রে অর্থাৎ তার পররাষ্ট্রবিষয়ক ব্যাপার কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের জুরিসডিকশনই একমাত্র জুরিসডিকশন। সেখানে রাজ্যগুলোর কিছুই করার থাকে না। এখানে খুব স্পষ্ট করে বোঝা যায়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গকে আসলে কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার বা রাজনৈতিক ও কূটনৈকিতকরা একটা উপলক্ষ হিসেবে ধরে নিয়ে বাংলাদেশকে পানি থেকে বঞ্চিত করতে চায়। বছরের পর বছর যে রাষ্ট্র তার নিকটতম প্রতিবেশীকে আন্তর্জাতিক আইন অনুযায়ী ন্যায্য পাওনা দেয় না। তাকে বন্ধু মনে করার যুক্তিসঙ্গত কারণ বাংলাদেশের মানুষ দেখে বলে আমার মনে হয় না।

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No worries, Bangladesh supreme court chief justice Surenda Kumar Sinha, who is an hindu, also being called a "Razakar". Kader Siddiqui a decorated freedom fighter also being called "Razakar". Their guilt is same because they opposed awami league and its anti Bangladesh activities.
It's more like pot calling kettle black.
 
No worries, Bangladesh supreme court chief justice Surenda Kumar Sinha, who is an hindu, also being called a "Razakar". Kader Siddiqui a decorated freedom fighter also being called "Razakar". Their guilt is same because they opposed awami league and its anti Bangladesh activities.

Do not you worry about others who are too higher than you yourself. It is you who is not a patriot as a citizen of BD and usually you talk like a razakar. Anything someone praises BD, you come out with an anti-BD newspaper article to prove yourself a razakar. It only proves that you must be an Indian pretending to be a BD razakar. Now you are exposed to all.
 
12:00 AM, August 18, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 02:30 AM, August 18, 2017
Project nightmare

Govt counting Tk 5.65cr in losses every month as project to reopen Chittagong chemical plant overruns
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Hasan Jahid Tusher

The government is incurring a loss of around Tk 5.65 crore every month as a 14-month project to reopen the country's lone state-owned chemical factory could not be implemented in more than four years.

The loss has been nearly Tk 82 crore since May last year, when the Tk 115 crore project to restart Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) in Sitakunda was extended for the second time.

Worse still, no light could be seen at the end of the tunnel as yet, thanks to a Chinese company's failure to get the plant going again and the authorities' negligence in this regard.

The authorities concerned have calculated the loss of one year only from May 2016. The project has overrun by nearly three years. Loss incurred during the rest of the period has not been calculated officially yet.

But CCC officials said the factory was facing a production loss of Tk 16 lakh every day.
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Putting the net loss of every month at around Tk 5.65 crore, the officials alleged that irregularities have plagued the project since its inception.

Against this backdrop, the Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into the matter. In a letter on June 14, the graft watchdog asked the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to turn in all relevant project documents.

The factory was closed in December 2002 as it had been incurring a loss of about Tk 15 crore every year. Taken up in April 2013, the project was due to end in December 2014.

The BCIC gave the job to “inexperienced” Wuhan Anyang Science & Technology Co Ltd (WASTCL). It had even paid the Chinese company about Tk 86 crore in bills and “undue” benefits, like advance payment and loan.

Now after four years, the WASTCL failing to restart the plant has stopped working at the project site since June 18 for a second time. It came after the project was extended for the second time.

“As per the contract agreement terms, you cannot stop the commissioning job, and leave site without completing commissioning and PGTR [performance guarantee test run] at this stage because we have already paid you 77.50 percent payment which is Tk 86.12 crore,” CCC Managing Director Bidyut Kumar Biswas said in a letter to CEO of WASTCL Li Guoan on May 24.

He wrote the letter as the Chinese company stopped working at the site after failing to complete the PGTR.

“You cannot keep the plant shutdown and cannot leave site without handover of the project,” Bidyut said.

Now the Chinese company again demanded the remaining payment to resume work. In the meantime, most of the Chinese officials left the CCC site keeping the plant completely shutdown.

In this situation, it has become completely uncertain if the plant would be in operation again, said several CCC officials speculating that the WASTCL would never be able to do so as it had no experience of taking up such a big project.

The plant authorities and the Chinese company are now busy trading blames and seeking compensations.

Both sides also threatened to take legal actions against each other if demands of the respective sides were not fulfilled urgently.

Going one step forward, the WASTCL even threatened to leave Bangladesh for China without completing successful PGTR.

The CCC and the company have been exchanging a number of letters, blaming each other for the work delay, seeking compensations and warning legal actions against each other since January this year, according to documents and letters from both sides.

The ministry of industries and BCIC high-ups held a joint meeting with the Chinese company on June 7.

The WASTCL had agreed to start the PGTR and set several conditions, including increasing gas supply pressure, nonstop five-day 33kv power supply from June 8, availability of qualified manpower, raw materials and financial support to the company during the production period.

But all efforts went in vain as the company again stopped the work on June 18 and left the site on “personal grounds”.

In this situation, the ministry and the BCIC high ups seem helpless.

TRADING BLAME

The WASTCL in several letters to the CCC since January blamed low power supply, gas pressure and problems with the gas engine generator as the main reasons behind the failure to start the test run.

It said since September last year, they started production 25 times, 18 of which were hampered due to power supply problems, according to the company's May 6 letter to the CCC.

The Chinese company claimed that it had completed its work in January. It demanded release of the rest 25 percent payment of Tk 25 crore along with Tk 60 lakh as bank interest and Tk 84 lakh it paid as VAT and tax.

Furthermore, the company sought compensation for its 32 staffs' salaries, and management costs Tk 13.82 crore for 180 days from May 15 to November 11 last year and Tk 6.48 crore for February to May 6 and employees' air tickets worth Tk 4.80 crore.

Urging the CCC authorities to pay high attention to their requests, the company threatened to report to the Chinese embassy in Dhaka and China Export Credit Insurance Company Ltd if the requests were not fulfilled.

They also threatened to stop all work at the site and return to China.

Refuting allegations of power and gas supply problems, the CCC in a letter to the WASTCL on May 24 said the Chinese company did not properly solve 10 mechanical problems to start the Performance Guarantee Test Run (PGTR).

The WASTCL was running the factory violating Standard Operation Procedure (SOP), it said, denying that production was hampered 18 times due to power supply problem.

“Most of the previous times production was hampered due to GEG synchronization failure as a locally-made GEG synchronization panel was installed by [WASTCL] instead of Caterpillar Synchronization panel,” he said.

“The project has to be completed in 14 months, but you could not complete it even in 48 months,” CCC Managing Director Bidyut said in a letter to the Chinese company.

In another letter to the WASTCL Chief Executive Office Li Guoan, Bidyut said, “Please be noted that without PGTR before handover, there is no scope of payment of the rest amount [final bill]…

“You are further requested to start the plant immediately to perform PGTR. Otherwise we have no other way than to take legal actions as per the contract,” read the letter to the Chinese Company.

Contacted, Bidyut told The Daily Star recently that the company did PGTR once but failed. They would do that again soon, he added.

Meanwhile, the BCIC held fresh meetings with officials from the CCC and the Chinese company in Dhaka in the last two days.

During the meeting, the Chinese company said it would not resume work without the rest of the payment while the CCC and the BCIC insisted that the company would carry out the PGTR, said BCIC Director (planning and implementation) Lutfor Rahman, who looks after the project.

http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/project-nightmare-1450234
 
BD Railway losses multiply
SAM Staff, August 19, 2017
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Holidaymakers are seen at Kamlapur railway station in Dhaka on Friday as Bangladesh Railway starts selling advance tickets on the day. — New Age photo
Bangladesh Railway’s net operating losses almost doubled last fiscal year and its losses in the past 10 fiscal years increased by about 176 per cent, according to official data.

The railway blames this on salary hike and increased expenses for its different institutions when rights activists and experts cite lack of professionalism, monitoring, proper planning and faulty operational system as causes.

According to the BR’s Information Book 2016, its net operating losses was Tk 872.84 crore in fiscal 2014-15 which jumped to Tk 1,325.20 crore in fiscal 2015-16 — a 51.82 per cent hike.

The amount of railway’s losses was Tk 480.36 crore in fiscal 2006-07 which increased by 175.87 per cent in fiscal 2015-16.
Railway’s operating expenses increased in all sectors including expenditure for general administration, repairs and maintenance, operation staff and fuel and others in fiscal 2015-16.
BR director general Md Amzad Hossain told New Age Thursday that the main reason behind hike in railway losses was implementation of new pay scale for the employees from July 2015.

He said the amount of pension for retired employees also increased which also pushed up the operating losses.

The DG also said operating expenses increased as railway had to spend money for running at least 10 hospitals and 10 schools all over the country.

In the recent years, BR’s net operating losses continued to increase while only in fiscal 2012-13 railway’s loss decreased by about 23 per cent or Tk 205 crore following hike in train fares in 2012 after 20 years.

But, again, from the next fiscal, the amount of losses started to increase again.

In February 2016, railway again increased train fares by 7.23 per cent on an average.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology professor and transportation consultant Md Shamsul Hoque said the railway was subsided by the government but common people were not getting the benefits.

When any organisation lacks professionalism, some opportunists would definitely grab the chance and take advantages, causing losses to the organisation and depriving general people of services, he observed.
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/08/19/bd-railway-losses-multiply/
 
BD Railway losses multiply
SAM Staff, August 19, 2017

It is no great or new news. It is happening since 1947 August. It is time that BR transport business and assets are segmented before their operations are leased to many private companies under a time frame of a few years. BR and BIMAN are facing the same problems of mismanagement and stealing by most of their employees. "Sarkar ka maal, dariya me daal".
 
It is no great or new news. It is happening since 1947 August. It is time that BR transport business and assets are segmented before their operations are leased to many private companies under a time frame of a few years. BR and BIMAN are facing the same problems of mismanagement and stealing by most of their employees. "Sarkar ka maal, dariya me daal".
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However, as all State owned sectors are bleeding the States Exchequer and depriving the innocent citizens of their lawful rights, by their notorious terminology of "System Loss". Do you condone these corrupt practices or do you all want to find out the reasons and implement drastic measures to bring an end to these evil wrong doings? Being NRB's your vast experience of 3D Good Governance would be of immense value for a corrupted country like ours.
 
বাংলাদেশ অধ্যয়ন কেন্দ্র - Center for Bangladesh Studies(CBS)
'‘স্বাধীনতার পর থেকে এখন পর্যন্ত সবচেয়ে বেশি আয়বৈষম্যের সময় এ মুহূর্তে পার করছে বাংলাদেশ।
মোট জাতীয় আয়ের অর্ধেকই এখনো উচ্চ আয়ের ১০ শতাংশ গৃহস্থালির কুক্ষিগত। অন্যদিকে জাতীয় আয়ে নিম্নআয়ের ৪০ শতাংশ বাংলাদেশীর অংশীদারিত্ব এখন অতীতের যেকোনো সময়ের তুলনায় সর্বনিম্নে।
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‘স্বাধীনতার পর থেকে এখন পর্যন্ত সবচেয়ে বেশি আয়বৈষম্যের সময় এ মুহূর্তে পার করছে বাংলাদেশ। মোট জাতীয় আয়ের অর্ধেকই এখনো উচ্চ আয়ের ১০ শতাংশ গৃহস্থালির কুক্ষিগত। অন্যদিকে জাতীয় আয়ে নিম্নআয়ের ৪০
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