Outsourcing?

Newspapers at times create unnecessary issues in this country. A recent report about some government-appointed regular teachers of the government-run Kainter Mukhpara Primary School in Borangchari upazila of our Banderban district having privately engaged 'teachers-on-hire' for doing their duties is an example. The chairman of Taracha Union Parishad, one Mr. Marma, has reportedly complained that most of the primary schools of his upazila run under the same arrangement. Previously, identical reports from some interior areas of Kishoreganj and Netrokona were published in the national newspapers.
In a world where outsourcing and engagement of consultants in aid of in-house staff of state organizations have become the latest norm, why should they find fault in engaging some outsiders as 'teachers-on-hire' by regular teachers as their substitutes? Theirs should be also viewed as a new type of management practice for better organizational competence and for more personal profit, based on outsourcing. The state should support it to help the government-appointed regular teachers in augmenting their incomes.
In many countries, some people hire surrogate mothers to conceive and deliver babies on behalf of would-be mothers. Lately, even surrogate fathers are hired in some countries by a few couples to live with them to help bring in children to this world, possibly gone wild.
Abdul Wahed
Free School Street
Dhaka