Only quality people can build quality nation
For building corruption free
society in Bangladesh are needed quality skilled honest leaders. For electing or
selecting quality leaders people are needed to be quality persons. For making
people quality educated nation wide are needded to provide quality education to
all.
Now the main duty of CTG before conducting fair & neutral election
for electing quality skilled politicians are needed to do reformation in
education system for providing quality education nation wide people, to do trial
of all corrupted people after proper judicial investigations. to make all
administrations fair & neutral for establishing honest good quality
administrations doing their duty honestly & perfectly in time.
Only
quality people can build quality nation.
Janomat bd <janomatbd1@gmail.com> wrote:
*Ending Corruption: Towards
a collaborative strategy*
*Prof. Syed Ahsanul Alam**
* *
Corruption in its all shades and color is the illegal tool of
accumulating
illegal wealth depriving a person which creates inequality and
social
injustice. Corruption destroys social order, rule of law and all
good
governance efforts. Corruption and the corrupts are the enemies of
the
people and the society in any country. That is why fighting corruption
and
installing honesty is a pre condition for good governance for ensuring
human
rights, human dignity, equality and social justice and better
business
environment.
Holding the first position in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for
5
consecutive years has tarnished the image of Bangladesh, and in such
a
situation majority of the citizens did not know what to do and how to
start
a fight against this man made tool of exploitation called corruption.
Under
the previous oppressive corrupt governance and social system
conscious
citizens attempted to raise voice against this evil through the
media or
different civil societies organizations. Today everybody including
the
Chairman Anti-Corruption Commission emphasizes on the reality of
designing a
collaborative strategy to limit this evil call corruption. The
following
nonviolent silent strategies may be used to curve down corrupt
practices in
every sector of Bangladesh.
* *
*Ending Corruption: Naming and shaming strategy*
Naming and shaming can be a very effective tactic to eradicate corruption
in
any country. Even in developing countries, where corruption is accepted as
a
necessary evil, naming and shaming tactic has been effective in
recent
years. In India, high profile cases uncovered and actively reported by
the
citizen action group have led to disgraceful dismissals of high
level
government officials and even criminal action against public figures.
No
such example has been set by the political governments in Bangladesh in
the
past. But citizen action groups or the media demonstrated ability
to
generate outrage among the public that can be channeled productively
to
control and eradicate corruption. Nobody can undermine the role and power
of
media in the society for establishing good governance.
* *
*Ending Corruption: Creating awareness strategy among the Stakeholders*
Everyday policy makers, professionals, business leaders,
sociologist,
economists and others independently generate amazing number of
ideas and
thoughts. The reasons that these ideas don't come to fruition is
because
like-minded reformers do seldom collaborate to bring changes. There
are a
lot of international and domestic organizations, NGOs, government
agencies,
opinion leaders and others – that are all individually working on
tackling
corruption in a piece-meal fashion. A more comprehensive approach
to
address corruption will be more fruitful. Corruption can be marginalized
if
not eliminated if all stakeholders work together in a coordinated
manner
against corruption. **
Ideas and thoughts are ineffective if not put to actions. Unless what
is
thought is acted upon, such thought has no value. What is important is
the
commitment of all the citizens – leaders of respective fields– to take
on
the challenge of ending corruption and to do one's own part to address it
in
a collaborative manner. Corruption, as in all affairs in society may
be
viewed from the two sides: *a demand side* and *a supply side*. The
*demand
* *side* can only be curbed by reforms of institutions,
strengthened
enforcement of law by a transparent judiciary. As the owner of
the country
all citizens are affected by corruption everyday, and as such
they should
insist reforms of the legislative, executive and judicial organ
of the
country. The stake holders of a corruption free society should get
united to
raise voice against corruption to curve the *supply side*. Thus the
citizens
will have to participate in the battle against corruption and only
moral
support to the Anti Corruption Commission (*ACC*) is not enough to
eliminate
corruption.
* *
*Ending Corruption: Creating awareness among the Civil Society*
Citizens face potential corruption practically at every level and
every
sector of life. It could be the local police, T.N.T, electricity and
water
authority, Municipal Corporation or the tax department. Government
alone
cannot succeed in combating corruption without the active participation
of
civil society and citizen action groups. Civil society is in the
best
position to articulate the grievances of the citizen and
highlight
priorities of action on corruption to governments. Civil society
can serve
many important roles–as observer, critic, analyst, campaigner, or
protestor.
It can create public awareness against corruption and mobilize
citizens to
fight against corruption in ways that governments cannot. Civil
society can
also play a strong role to organize campaigns against
corruption.
Center ForGood Governance is working with many civic
organizations for
capacity
building of such organization.
*Ending Corruption: Creating awareness among Chambers and Trade Bodies*
As Civil society organizations, Citizens' action groups, NGOs, media,
and
Chambers–can play the largest role in improving governance both in
the
public and private sector. Similarly *Chambers* can be more active
by
organizing seminars, workshops, round tables to generate awareness
against
corruption and unethical business practice. Chambers can
establish
*anti* *corruption
cell* headed by a vice president with
adequate funds to establish liaison
with media, anti corruption commission
(ACC) and other government agencies
to combat corruption and protect its
members from extortion and corrupt
claims. Mega chambers should formulate
code of conduct for their members and
put pressure on the members for
compliance. Awareness regarding code of
conduct for members of chambers would
have trickle down effect on smaller
business enterprises and so on. **
* *
*Ending Corruption: Creating awareness among Private Sector*
The private sector can play a more active role in rooting out the
*supply
side* of corruption. It is painful that most businessman and citizens
looks
at corrupt practice as a system. According to unofficial estimates
many
business house just account for it on their books – as much as 10% –
adding
to the cost of doing business. Business leaders as well as the
government
should take initiatives so that local and foreign investors can
set up
business enterprise and function in Bangladesh without resorting
to
corruption and extortion. After 1/11/07 the present Anti
corruption
commission (ACC) visibly started a crusade against corruption
which may be
looked upon as a proactive move towards corruption free
governance.**
For eradicating corruptions the private sector must emphasize on
internal
controls and auditing mechanisms. Corporate bodies and business
houses
needs to set clear and enforceable policies against corrupt or
unethical
business practices. Business house need to periodically train
middle and
senior management on business ethics to ensure that standards
are
institutionalized throughout the organization. Business houses
should
change their mind-set to prefer managers having comprehensive
business
education with emphasis on ethics. Any business managers can not
afford to
be unaware of global ethical standards for doing business in
Bangladesh.**
* *
*Conclusion*
In a developing country for good governance the fight against corruption
is
not easy. Bangladesh recently started drive against corruption. It
is
expected the present caretaker government, patriot citizens and
other
stakeholders will be able to address the most difficult challenge –
fighting
corruption. Corruption is a tremendous deterrent to good governance
and
development, and its burden falls heaviest on the shoulders of the
poor
people. An effective Anti-Corruption Commission – with strong
political
backing, can become a credible tool to deter corruption. All
concerned
should help the ACC to be fully operative. If Bangladesh wants to
establish
corruption free business friendly environment, wants to become a
country
free of poverty and economically strong, where every citizen will
enjoy his
or her rights and a better quality life, ending corruption is the
most
important need. It is the responsibility of every stakeholder to respond
to
this need towards corruption free, transparent, participatory
good
governance ensuring equity and social justice.**
No body will deny that, in Bangladesh the past governance mechanism was
far
less then satisfactory. Many issues and problems were the barriers to
ensure
good governance, equity and social justice. Weak watchdog
institutions
corruption, political interference in administration, nepotism,
misuse of
power, absence of rule of law, non-accountable and
non-transparent
governments etc. are the common features of our governance
which needs to be
addressed on urgent basis.
**
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Author Syed Ahsanul Alam is an Associate Professor of marketing at
the
University of Chittagong, Bangladesh and Chairman, Center for
Good
Governance. His recent administrative post includes vice rector IIBT
(
Premier University), Director, Sadharon Bima Corp., Treasurer. USTC
(SWC),
Representative of the President,USTC.He lactured widely at various
business
schools including University of Science and Technology, Open
University,
ABAC Thailand and also in Singapore. Rotarian Syed Ahsanul Alam
is a well
known Academician, Institution Building Personality and Activist
for Good
Governance.The Author may be reached at Fax : 880-31-2550872,
E-mail:centerforgoodgovernance@yahoo.com,
Web-site: www.goodgovernancebd.org**
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