Sylhetis Are Blessed to be Part of Bangladesh

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

I believe charity starts from home. Only a certain percentage should be shared. But, GOB is grabbing all of it and not spending on Sylhets improvement...

I have no interest in india. My ancestors choose Pakistan for a reason...

And non of these are courtesy of GOB...

These are our gas anyway. Huge amount of non Sylhetis works there too...

Every year GOB extracts resources worth billions of dollars from our land since independence. And we should be happy with some pesky road and airport expansion projects?

Bangladeshis complain, Pakistan looted our wealth and was unjust with us. Now, what exactly GOB doing with Sylhet? They're doing the same thing shamelessly...

Yes, we Sylhetis are well off. But, neither its from government grants or from anyone else's pocket. Its from our hardwork without anybody's help even the GOBs...

I think this problem lies in GOB Bangladesh being an unitary state. Political structure that was set up back then have contributed this inefficiency. I would prefer American style of government where Every division of Bangladesh should be given more autonomy regarding their fiscal spending and utilizing their revenue based on their local citizens needs. Such as building roads, it doesn’t matter how big or small the country is. The most common way to efficiently govern is decentralized from of government. All division should pay federal or Bangladeshi National taxes for military and other vital resources. But that’s a whole another debate. There should be IRS style strong Bangladeshi National Tax Collection agency along with its division, city and county tax codes which should be collected by Divisional Tax agency redistributed back to back to those counties, cities and division. This would also create more jobs and empower local citizens. What is Sylheti people doing to get that fiscal autonomy so they spend that money on Sylheti regional needs to better serve its citizens? Do most Sylheti people are asking for GOB to recognize their language? I think even policing and security should be provided at a county and city and state division Level just like here in USA take a look at tiny city of Takoma Park, in Maryland in the outskirts of D.C. This is really comes to setting up government structures with devolution of fiscal powers and other necessary powers, even education policy can also be devolved to division and city level. Question I think Sylheti people should at least get their language recognized and their fiscal autonomy granted . Not just sylhet, all of 7 division of Bangladesh should get their fiscal autonomy to matter manage and govern and run the respective region efficiently under the BD Nationality system with a strong federal government and military. Centralized power breeds corruption, inefficiency and to some extent dictatorship, as when you give power to one person, power corrupt people and they in turn become power hungry and corruption happen without any fiscal transparency etc. Many State in the United States is smaler thacurrent BD yet have all of those rights, hence they have become developed and efficient as well by creating their local service based economy unique to their needs along with great private companies. Look at Silicon Valley.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2019/02/12/a-plan-to-decentralize


https://diamond-democracy.stanford.edu/speaking/speeches/why-decentralize-power-democracy

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

No country works this way.

The resources are shared equally. No area has any ownership of the resources within it's territory.

Not interested in this kind of communism. Sorry...

Well without Sylhet being part of BD do not expect as much BD tourists to visit Sylhet every year.
As BD gets wealtheir Sylhet will be able to tap into more and more domestic tourists from other parts of BD.

How many tourist from BD visits india every year? Is india is a part of BD? Sylhet has things that attracts tourists it has nothing to do with being a part of Bangladesh.

You say "ours" but Sylhet is part of BD. The gas belongs to BD to be used for the development of the whole country.

Pakistanis can use same logic to counter Bangladeshis claim of looting Bangladeshs wealth.

Profits of our natural resources and high taxes are used for other parts of Bangladeshs development minus "us". Its a fact...

Sylhet is getting the public spending as per population share.

In the Pakistan era, a more populous BD was sending money over to less populous Pakistan.

Sylhet has 8% of the population of BD and with the bulk of the natural resources of course most of the money from the extracted resources from Sylhet will be spent elsewhere in the country. That is what happens anywhere else in the world and nothing unusual.

As I said earlier, not interested in this kind of communism!

When you extract natural resources there will be environment impact. We also have to take the burnt of this while other part of Bangladesh just gets the profit.

Not interested in this kind of bad deal...

This is as the central government is not holding Sylhet back. Sylhet is getting an IT Park like anywhere else in BD.

Yes us Sylhetis are very hard working and that is the reason why we are successful but it is not being held back by the central government in Dhaka.

IT parks costing couple of millions doesn't sounds impressive to me. This is 2020, GOB is milking us since independence!

Spending profits of our natural resources on other parts of Bangladesh without giving us fair share. Highly corrupt and unprofessional administration employees. Hordes of semi civilized non Sylhetis spiking crime rate. I think GOB is certainly holding us back...

 

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

Not interested in this kind of communism. Sorry...

How many tourist from BD visits india every year? Is india is a part of BD? Sylhet has things that attracts tourists it has nothing to do with being a part of Bangladesh.

Pakistanis can use same logic to counter Bangladeshis claim of looting Bangladeshs wealth.

Profits of our natural resources and high taxes are used for other parts of Bangladeshs development minus "us". Its a fact...

As I said earlier, not interested in this kind of communism!

When you extract natural resources there will be environment impact. We also have to take the burnt of this while other part of Bangladesh just gets the profit.

Not interested in this kind of bad deal...

IT parks costing couple of millions doesn't sounds impressive to me. This is 2020, GOB is milking us since independence!

Spending profits of our natural resources on other parts of Bangladesh without giving us fair share. Highly corrupt and unprofessional administration employees. Hordes of semi civilized non Sylhetis spiking crime rate. I think GOB is certainly holding us back...

I agree with you please see my earlier post which can resolve these issues. Sylheti people need to demand to get their fiscal autonomy granted. But they need to demand it.

I think this problem lies in GOB Bangladesh being an unitary state. Political structure that was set up back then have contributed this inefficiency. I would prefer American style of government where Every division of Bangladesh should be given more autonomy regarding their fiscal spending and utilizing their revenue based on their local citizens needs. Such as building roads, it doesn’t matter how big or small the country is. The most common way to efficiently govern is decentralized from of government. All division should pay federal or Bangladeshi National taxes for military and other vital resources. But that’s a whole another debate. There should be IRS style strong Bangladeshi National Tax Collection agency along with its division, city and county tax codes which should be collected by Divisional Tax agency redistributed back to back to those counties, cities and division. This would also create more jobs and empower local citizens. What is Sylheti people doing to get that fiscal autonomy so they spend that money on Sylheti regional needs to better serve its citizens? Do most Sylheti people are asking for GOB to recognize their language? I think even policing and security should be provided at a county and city and state division Level just like here in USA take a look at tiny city of Takoma Park, in Maryland in the outskirts of D.C. This is really comes to setting up government structures with devolution of fiscal powers and other necessary powers, even education policy can also be devolved to division and city level. Question I think Sylheti people should at least get their language recognized and their fiscal autonomy granted . Not just sylhet, all of 7 division of Bangladesh should get their fiscal autonomy to matter manage and govern and run the respective region efficiently under the BD Nationality system with a strong federal government and military. Centralized power breeds corruption, inefficiency and to some extent dictatorship, as when you give power to one person, power corrupt people and they in turn become power hungry and corruption happen without any fiscal transparency etc. Many State in the United States is smaler thacurrent BD yet have all of those rights, hence they have become developed and efficient as well by creating their local service based economy unique to their needs along with great private companies. Look at Silicon Valley.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2019/02/12/a-plan-to-decentralize


https://diamond-democracy.stanford.edu/speaking/speeches/why-decentralize-power-democracy

Here is the post!

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

I think this problem lies in GOB Bangladesh being an unitary state. Political structure that was set up back then have contributed this inefficiency. I would prefer American style of government where Every division of Bangladesh should be given more autonomy regarding their fiscal spending and utilizing their revenue based on their local citizens needs. Such as building roads, it doesn’t matter how big or small the country is. The most common way to efficiently govern is decentralized from of government. All division should pay federal or Bangladeshi National taxes for military and other vital resources. But that’s a whole another debate. There should be IRS style strong Bangladeshi National Tax Collection agency along with its division, city and county tax codes which should be collected by Divisional Tax agency redistributed back to back to those counties, cities and division. This would also create more jobs and empower local citizens. What is Sylheti people doing to get that fiscal autonomy so they spend that money on Sylheti regional needs to better serve its citizens? Do most Sylheti people are asking for GOB to recognize their language? I think even policing and security should be provided at a county and city and state division Level just like here in USA take a look at tiny city of Takoma Park, in Maryland in the outskirts of D.C. This is really comes to setting up government structures with devolution of fiscal powers and other necessary powers, even education policy can also be devolved to division and city level. Question I think Sylheti people should at least get their language recognized and their fiscal autonomy granted . Not just sylhet, all of 7 division of Bangladesh should get their fiscal autonomy to matter manage and govern and run the respective region efficiently under the BD Nationality system with a strong federal government and military. Centralized power breeds corruption, inefficiency and to some extent dictatorship, as when you give power to one person, power corrupt people and they in turn become power hungry and corruption happen without any fiscal transparency etc. Many State in the United States is smaler thacurrent BD yet have all of those rights, hence they have become developed and efficient as well by creating their local service based economy unique to their needs along with great private companies. Look at Silicon Valley.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2019/02/12/a-plan-to-decentralize


https://diamond-democracy.stanford.edu/speaking/speeches/why-decentralize-power-democracy

Well, Im a student of Political Science and Economics!

Looking at Bangladeshs political culture, I think federal system with autonomous divisions is the way to go.

Sylhet will do better when we Sylhetis control her...

 

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

Well, Im a student of Political Science and Economics!

Looking at Bangladeshs political culture, I think federal system with autonomous divisions is the way to go.

Sylhet will do better when we Sylhetis control her...

Same here brother. We need more people to realize this!

 

[UKBengali]

Not interested in this kind of communism. Sorry...
How many tourist from BD visits india every year? Is india is a part of BD? Sylhet has things that attracts tourists it has nothing to do with being a part of Bangladesh.

Far more internal BD tourism than to India.

Think why BD tourists go to Sylhet tea gardens rather than the tea gardens of W Bengal.

People generally prefer their own country for obvious reasons.

Pakistanis can use same logic to counter Bangladeshis claim of looting Bangladeshs wealth.

No they cannot as BD(East Pakistan) had 55% population compared to 45% for West Pakistan.
BD was also the poorer and so in theory should have got more than 55% of the public spending, whereas it got something like 25% I think!

Sylhet is better off than the rest of BD and so as long as it receives somewhere around 8%(population share) of the public spending then that is a fair system.


@SylhetiBDeshiAmerican : I agree that Sylhet needs to be recognised for it's unique history, language and culture to the rest of the country.
It should get autonomy in areas like education but you cannot have a political union without a fiscal union. The idea that Sylhet's resources should on the whole be used in Sylhet does not happen in any other country in the world.

Yes Sylhet's resources have played a major role in turning BD's economy into what is expected to be the fastest growing large economy in the world over the next 15 years. For Sylhet to prosper, the rest of BD also has to prosper.

 

[ChennaiDude]

Hold a referendum in Sylhet for independence.

I believe the majority will vote for BD.

Dont think of joining India. If you are Muslim and care for the future of your children.

I dont think Sylhet should even think off breaking away from Bangladesh- Its now a part of the country and should remain so- South East Asia is very unique in that way- if every region/starts thinking of independence then its never ending. (India / Pakistan/ Bangladesh---all will break up into many small countries with many languages, cultures and customs to differentiate).

 

[bête noire]

I think this problem lies in GOB Bangladesh being an unitary state. Political structure that was set up back then have contributed this inefficiency. I would prefer American style of government where Every division of Bangladesh should be given more autonomy regarding their fiscal spending and utilizing their revenue based on their local citizens needs. Such as building roads, it doesn’t matter how big or small the country is. The most common way to efficiently govern is decentralized from of government. All division should pay federal or Bangladeshi National taxes for military and other vital resources. But that’s a whole another debate. There should be IRS style strong Bangladeshi National Tax Collection agency along with its division, city and county tax codes which should be collected by Divisional Tax agency redistributed back to back to those counties, cities and division. This would also create more jobs and empower local citizens. What is Sylheti people doing to get that fiscal autonomy so they spend that money on Sylheti regional needs to better serve its citizens? Do most Sylheti people are asking for GOB to recognize their language? I think even policing and security should be provided at a county and city and state division Level just like here in USA take a look at tiny city of Takoma Park, in Maryland in the outskirts of D.C. This is really comes to setting up government structures with devolution of fiscal powers and other necessary powers, even education policy can also be devolved to division and city level. Question I think Sylheti people should at least get their language recognized and their fiscal autonomy granted . Not just sylhet, all of 7 division of Bangladesh should get their fiscal autonomy to matter manage and govern and run the respective region efficiently under the BD Nationality system with a strong federal government and military. Centralized power breeds corruption, inefficiency and to some extent dictatorship, as when you give power to one person, power corrupt people and they in turn become power hungry and corruption happen without any fiscal transparency etc. Many State in the United States is smaler thacurrent BD yet have all of those rights, hence they have become developed and efficient as well by creating their local service based economy unique to their needs along with great private companies. Look at Silicon Valley.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2019/02/12/a-plan-to-decentralize


https://diamond-democracy.stanford.edu/speaking/speeches/why-decentralize-power-democracy

This has to be a joke. How on earth do you think other countries became rich then that are unitary states.

Green = Federal
Blue = Unitary
The biggest joke in your post is that you didn't mention India and Pakistan, both of which are federal states. I wonder how that federal system worked wonders and opened so many opportunities for these two countries. All India has is red tape between states. Most of European countries also have unitary system and yet I would say they are doing fine.

Not to mention, comparing US geography and BD and saying how every place has different needs. I agree there are are different needs for different people but Bangladesh is a small and dense country. A central government can see most of the problems in different communities since it doesn't vary all that much in a small country like BD.

Not interested in this kind of communism. Sorry...

How many tourist from BD visits india every year? Is india is a part of BD? Sylhet has things that attracts tourists it has nothing to do with being a part of Bangladesh.

Pakistanis can use same logic to counter Bangladeshis claim of looting Bangladeshs wealth.

Profits of our natural resources and high taxes are used for other parts of Bangladeshs development minus "us". Its a fact...

As I said earlier, not interested in this kind of communism!

When you extract natural resources there will be environment impact. We also have to take the burnt of this while other part of Bangladesh just gets the profit.

Not interested in this kind of bad deal...

IT parks costing couple of millions doesn't sounds impressive to me. This is 2020, GOB is milking us since independence!

Spending profits of our natural resources on other parts of Bangladesh without giving us fair share. Highly corrupt and unprofessional administration employees. Hordes of semi civilized non Sylhetis spiking crime rate. I think GOB is certainly holding us back...

Hello mr. IAmNotACommunist, do you then believe in flat taxes too? And also not just flat percentage, flat raw tax. Because why should a rich person pay more than a poor person just because they are rich? Thats the kind of nonsense you're spouting.

And many Sylhetis are paying a lot in taxes because they fall in the tax bracket you say. And so what? Do people from other divisions have to pay more even if they are poor, just to match the numbers of people from Sylhet? I am not sure what is there to complain about when you are earning more than most. Thats how every country works.

Pretty sure within sylhet, there are rich and poor district too. Why then stop at divisions and not go to individual districts? Why should one district within Sylhet pay more in taxes than in any other district? Just because one district has more people in that tax bracket? Well, now that won't do. It should be district or town wise since you want to be "fair".

 

[UKBengali]

All India has is red tape between states. Most of European countries also have unitary system and yet I would say they are doing fine.

Excellent point.

BD cannot have different divisions with different economic policies if it is to march forward economically at it's current rate - which is the quickest in the region.

Imagine if BD government wanted to the widen the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and the autonomous government in Sylhet decided that it did not like the design or cost for some reason. This would only add delay and would hamper the social and economic development of Sylhet and the rest of the country to a lesser extent.

Germany is different as it was already pretty developed by the time it became a unified country in the late 19th century and no German state can keep the profits of natural resources for itself as they are considered a federal resource. Also richer states are always subsidising the poorer states and you cannot have a situation where there is too much inequality between different states as then people from too poor states will just migrate to the richer states.

The idea that Sylhet could have kept the bulk of gas revenues for itself and become many times richer than the rest of BD over the decades is just not logical and not seen in any other country in the world.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Hello mr. IAmNotACommunist, do you then believe in flat taxes too? And also not just flat percentage, flat raw tax. Because why should a rich person pay more than a poor person just because they are rich? Thats the kind of nonsense you're spouting.

And many Sylhetis are paying a lot in taxes because they fall in the tax bracket you say. And so what? Do people from other divisions have to pay more even if they are poor, just to match the numbers of people from Sylhet? I am not sure what is there to complain about when you are earning more than most. Thats how every country works.

Pretty sure within sylhet, there are rich and poor district too. Why then stop at divisions and not go to individual districts? Why should one district within Sylhet pay more in taxes than in any other district? Just because one district has more people in that tax bracket? Well, now that won't do. It should be district or town wise since you want to be "fair".

LOL, out of all points I made you just picked the tax one to vomit your 3 para nonsense rage against me?

My point was, We Sylhetis pay high taxes compared to others, yet the government aren't spending on Sylhets development.

 

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

Far more internal BD tourism than to India.

Think why BD tourists go to Sylhet tea gardens rather than the tea gardens of W Bengal.

People generally prefer their own country for obvious reasons.




No they cannot as BD(East Pakistan) had 55% population compared to 45% for West Pakistan.
BD was also the poorer and so in theory should have got more than 55% of the public spending, whereas it got something like 25% I think!

Sylhet is better off than the rest of BD and so as long as it receives somewhere around 8%(population share) of the public spending then that is a fair system.


@SylhetiBDeshiAmerican : I agree that Sylhet needs to be recognised for it's unique history, language and culture to the rest of the country.
It should get autonomy in areas like education but you cannot have a political union without a fiscal union. The idea that Sylhet's resources should on the whole be used in Sylhet does not happen in any other country in the world.

Yes Sylhet's resources have played a major role in turning BD's economy into what is expected to be the fastest growing large economy in the world over the next 15 years. For Sylhet to prosper, the rest of BD also has to prosper.

As I mentioned @UKBengali, Sylhet division and Sylhetis will still pay Bangladeshi National Taxes that will be formulated and legislated by Bangladeshi National Parliament. Even UK and many small European countries are devolved. They will still have to pay taxes to Bangladeshi National Government.

Excellent point.

BD cannot have different divisions with different economic policies if it is to march forward economically at it's current rate - which is the quickest in the region.

Imagine if BD government wanted to the widen the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and the autonomous government in Sylhet decided that it did not like the design or cost for some reason. This would only add delay and would hamper the social and economic development of Sylhet and the rest of the country to a lesser extent.

Germany is different as it was already pretty developed by the time it became a unified country in the late 19th century and no German state can keep the profits of natural resources for itself as they are considered a federal resource. Also richer states are always subsidising the poorer states and you cannot have a situation where there is too much inequality between different states as then people from too poor states will just migrate to the richer states.

The idea that Sylhet could have kept the bulk of gas revenues for itself and become many times richer than the rest of BD over the decades is just not logical and not seen in any other country in the world.

This has to be a joke. How on earth do you think other countries became rich then that are unitary states.
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Green = Federal
Blue = Unitary
The biggest joke in your post is that you didn't mention India and Pakistan, both of which are federal states. I wonder how that federal system worked wonders and opened so many opportunities for these two countries. All India has is red tape between states. Most of European countries also have unitary system and yet I would say they are doing fine.

Not to mention, comparing US geography and BD and saying how every place has different needs. I agree there are are different needs for different people but Bangladesh is a small and dense country. A central government can see most of the problems in different communities since it doesn't vary all that much in a small country like BD.


Hello mr. IAmNotACommunist, do you then believe in flat taxes too? And also not just flat percentage, flat raw tax. Because why should a rich person pay more than a poor person just because they are rich? Thats the kind of nonsense you're spouting.

And many Sylhetis are paying a lot in taxes because they fall in the tax bracket you say. And so what? Do people from other divisions have to pay more even if they are poor, just to match the numbers of people from Sylhet? I am not sure what is there to complain about when you are earning more than most. Thats how every country works.

Pretty sure within sylhet, there are rich and poor district too. Why then stop at divisions and not go to individual districts? Why should one district within Sylhet pay more in taxes than in any other district? Just because one district has more people in that tax bracket? Well, now that won't do. It should be district or town wise since you want to be "fair".

India has different problem lol
They have this whole cultural issue and caste system. Many of those small European countries are actually devolved, look carefully including UK and much other smaller nations.

Excellent point.

BD cannot have different divisions with different economic policies if it is to march forward economically at it's current rate - which is the quickest in the region.

Imagine if BD government wanted to the widen the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and the autonomous government in Sylhet decided that it did not like the design or cost for some reason. This would only add delay and would hamper the social and economic development of Sylhet and the rest of the country to a lesser extent.

Germany is different as it was already pretty developed by the time it became a unified country in the late 19th century and no German state can keep the profits of natural resources for itself as they are considered a federal resource. Also richer states are always subsidising the poorer states and you cannot have a situation where there is too much inequality between different states as then people from too poor states will just migrate to the richer states.

The idea that Sylhet could have kept the bulk of gas revenues for itself and become many times richer than the rest of BD over the decades is just not logical and not seen in any other country in the world.

No full functioning civil citizens will deny infrastructure development that they will be benefit from. In fact they will welcome it with open arm. There will be executive power delegated to Federal, Bangladeshi National parliament to make essential policy and infrastructural needs like interstate was developed for commercial and connectivity reasons. Bangladeshi national government would obviously have the power along with state to provide that needs to their citizens.
This has been clearly studied and the most civil efficient and transparent way to develop and fast tract the development.
We can compare and contrast the successful vs unsuccessful models in the world. Many of this small nation state are roughly
The size of Bangladesh and they have devolved power. Decentralizing power is to reduce corruption as well.

 

[UKBengali]

India has different problem lol
They have this whole cultural issue and caste system. Many of those small European countries are actually devolved, look carefully including UK and much other smaller nations.

I agree that BD is totally different to India as it is far more homogenous than it and is the most homogenous country in the sub-continent and hence why it is the most stable.

As for the UK I can tell you that devolution means little economically - the Scottish government can only vary tax rates slightly from the rest of the UK and all income from oil and gas goes to the central UK government.

 

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

I agree that BD is totally different to India as it is far more homogenous than it and is the most homogenous country in the sub-continent and hence why it is the most stable.

As for the UK I can tell you that devolution means little economically - the Scottish government can only vary tax rates slightly from the rest of the UK and all income from oil and gas goes to the central UK government.

Sylhet division will still have to pay Bangladeshi National Taxes from the revenue they earn from the gas industry they will also be able to sell the Gas to other parts Bangladesh as a national priority with partnership with central govt and from that generated income they will also have to pay income taxes to Bangladeshi National government. No taxation without representation. This whole business taxes vs individual taxes vs state and local taxes all can be worked out to make it a full functioning Nation while retaining their divisional fiscal autonomy. This can be worked out just like US model. Take a look at a small US state like Maryland.

 

[UKBengali]

No full functioning civil citizens will deny infrastructure development that they will be benefit from. In fact they will welcome it with open arm. There will be executive power delegated to Federal, Bangladeshi National parliament to make essential policy and infrastructural needs like interstate was developed for commercial and connectivity reasons. Bangladeshi national government would obviously have the power along with state to provide that needs to their citizens.
This has been clearly studied and the most civil efficient and transparent way to develop and fast tract the development.
We can compare and contrast the successful vs unsuccessful models in the world. Many of this small nation state are roughly
The size of Bangladesh and they have devolved power. Decentralizing power is to reduce corruption as well.

Some power like education for sure should be devolved to local Sylhet government. It goes without saying that Sylhet is unique division in BD.

BD is pretty small and very densely populated and the centralised structure seems to be working well economically and so am not convinced how BD and Sylhet will benefit from having another layer of government in areas like finance.

Sylhet economically is very strong due to remittances from overseas Sylhetis, tourism and the tea gardens and so I do not see many benefits from changing the system and only potential harm.

As for infrastructure as mentioned by @Abu Shaleh Rumi , well Sylhet will be getting lots over this decade just like the rest of BD. I would like to see a metro system being built in Sylhet to become the 3rd city in BD to get it after Dhaka and Chittagong.

 

[SylhetiBDeshiAmerican]

Some power like education for sure should be devolved to local Sylhet government. It goes without saying that Sylhet is unique division in BD.

BD is pretty small and very densely populated and the centralised structure seems to be working well economically and so am not convinced how BD and Sylhet will benefit from having another layer of government in areas like finance.

Sylhet economically is very strong due to remittances from overseas Sylhetis, tourism and the tea gardens and so I do not see many benefits from changing the system and only potential harm.

Yes remittances is not a industry, its never guaranteed and also prone to outside economic shocks, along with second and 3rd generations do not send money as like the first generations. Also lastly this will create lots of jobs for local citizens as well. You just have to carefully look at it. There will be less corruption and more accountability as well. Taxation plays a huge role in nation building. Here is an interesting read, I am not condoning for lotteries to raise revenue, but just an example, you need to create industries at a local level.Remittance is just a bonus revenue to the economy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...8720/mega-millions-lottery-power-ball-drawing