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House and living standard

When a country's 53 per cent people live in what is called 'kutcha' (not brick-built) houses and 31.33 per cent in semi-pucca dwellings with only 15 per cent residing in buildings, the immediate impression given out is not particularly cherishing. The condition of housing everywhere is a fair reflection of...

Smarter subsidies for water and sanitation services

The United Nations had in 2010 declared clean drinking water and sanitation to be human rights. The target for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at that time was to halve the number of people living without access to improved water and sanitation services by the year 2015. Then in 2015,...

Bringing necessary changes to migration policy

Irregular migration from Bangladesh continues unabated. A section of dishonest middlemen are luring innocent people to go abroad for making fortunes. Migrants are taking high risk when they take part in such uncertain journeys to unknown destinations. Cheating, fraud, extortion and death are the outcomes of such migration that are...

Bangladeshi female workers abroad

As many as 311 bodies of Bangladeshi female workers came to the country from the Middle East, mostly from Saudi Arabia, in the past three and half years. Of them, 53 women committed suicide, 120 died in stroke and 56 were killed in accidents. Most of those women who died...

Bringing efficiency in passport office

There is no helpline for information at the passport office in Dhaka. There is a number (+8808123788) but an automated voice says it is vacant. There is an email address on the official website -- [email protected] -- but no reply is my experience. Even for a small piece of information,...

Agro-based industry

Agriculture accounts for about 18 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and absorbs around 45 per cent of the workforce. Majority of the people are still dependent on agriculture, agribusiness, agro-processing, farm trade and a series of other activities relating to agriculture. The Bangladesh agriculture is quite...