Unprecedented tailbacks on highways
Roads and highways in this country are not foreign to intractable tailbacks but what the Dhaka-Chattogram highway has been experiencing over the past one and a half weeks is unprecedented. A gridlock as long as 114 kilometres does paint not only a negative picture of the transportation system in the...
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Where education fails to deliver
Although the problem of private tutoring in education has emerged at the top in newspaper reports here, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) Global Education Monitoring Report 2017-18 treated it as no more than a side issue. True, it is acknowledged as a global phenomenon with its...
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When 'adjustment' hurts consumers
The Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is set to make its annual ritual -- a hike in water tariff. This time the increase will be at the rate of 5.0 per cent, equivalent to that of 2017. However, the managing director of the WASA is not willing to describe...
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Completion of Mehdipur-Abdul Nabi Raod
IT is good to learn that the development budget for 2018-19 fiscal year prioritises small and medium size projects aimed at helping rural people. It is also nice to know that the government wants to complete all the small projects before the ensuing parliamentary elections. Mehdipur-Abdul Nabi Road measuring 2.1...
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Change in social norms and behaviour
THE social structure of Bangladesh has taken a paradigm shift in line with the economic development of the country for the benefit of the growing middle class. Recently we have graduated from a least developed country which is undoubtedly a great achievement. Now it is no longer a dream for...
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