Life insurers or MLM cos?
A few serious allegations about a number of life insurance companies which many tend to believe to be true even without any spot probe, deserve immediate attention of the authorities concerned. This is primarily because the financial interests of hundreds of poor policyholders are involved here. Given the reactions of...
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Stopping leakage of safety net funds
At long last, the government has stepped in to plug holes in the social safety net programmes as far as possible with $245 million dollar funds from the World Bank (WB). Such a need was long overdue as in 2017 fiscal year alone, Bangladesh spent around $ 3.5 billion on...
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Developing human resources -
A recent study by the Bangladesh Institute of Development studies (BIDS) reveals that enough attention was not given to create efficient manpower for the readymade garments sector which is our highest foreign exchange earner. The report says the readymade garments sector alone requires 3.6 million efficient workers by 2020-21 and...
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Padma Bridge faces serious design problems
I expressed my concern before the start of the construction work of Padma Bridge about two years ago and repeated the same several times and also most recently that mismatch of soil strength at piers locations might cause problems. I sent copies of my views to newspapers and also to...
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Reduce registration fees for flats
AN English national daily reported that realtors on December 17 urged the government to reduce registration fees, taxes, and other charges to help low- and middle-income families buy homes at reduced cost. Presently, land registration fee is between 14 and 19 per cent of total land price, while flat registration...
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