Staffing properly overseas Bangladesh diplomatic

Bangladeshi missions abroad are limited in number. What creates more concern is that the commercial wings in the real sense of the term exist in only a limited number of them. Even such a limited number of commercial wings has been suffering badly from not having adequate staff at their disposal. Clearly, the imperative is to fill these positions at the understaffed commercial wings of the missions at the fastest. But the staffing must not follow the tradition of dispensing favours to loyal bureaucrats or political cronies of diverse sorts. The posts must go to really dynamic and resourceful persons. There is no reason why the wings -- commercial wings of and labour attaches to -- Bangladeshi missions at abroad cannot be staffed with ones having specialist knowledge about exporting manpower and doing practical business. In a situation particularly when manpower export from Bangladesh is declining worryingly, truly devoted labour attaches or the like appointed in our embassies in greater number are expected to play a significant role for a turnaround in the situation. Right man should be placed in the right position, without considering narrow partisan political interests. Munir Quddus Jhikatala, Dhaka Farmgate-Tejgaon Road The road from Farmgate to Tejgaon (Nabisco) needs to be expanded by demolishing the illegal structures and unauthorised shops. It is an important road used by thousands of people every day, but it has remained uncared, unnoticed and overlooked by the Dhaka City Corporation for decades. The two sides of the road are occupied illegally by some shopkeepers. This creates frequent traffic jams, causing unbearable hardships to the users. We bring this to the notice of the Dhaka City Corporation authority and urge them to look into the matter and take immediate steps to expand the road by removing the illegal shops from the two sides of the road. If this road is expanded, private cars and other vehicles will be able to move through this road and will reduce the traffic jam and congestion at the nearby "Rangs signal" crossing where hundreds of vehicles remain stranded for long time every day Muhammad Jalal Hussain Dhaka Email: m.jalal.hussain@gmail.com Stop corporal punishment in schools I would not consider myself to be a very religious person, but I abide by the laws handed down by Almighty Allah and I try my best to lead a life that spiritually profits me, and those around me. In your interesting report on November 4 headlined 'Eid-ul-Azha: A time to pause, reflect and make anew,' Sir Franks Peters philosophically recommended we would all benefit, if we took time out and gave some serious thought as to where we are and where we would like to be. I did just that and even though it's only been days, I already feel I'm a better person or 'on the right road' at least. The article made a lot of sense to me and I gained much from it. It made me realise that most of my 'hustle and bustle' existence was merely filling-in time, getting through the hours, being occupied with frivolous activities, but not really accomplishing any great deeds or deriving much personal satisfaction from all that I did. All this is about to change. I have paused, rested, reflected, reconsidered my destination and sown seeds that by this time next year I hope and trust will bear fruit. I'm now more determined than ever before to become the person I had always wanted to become, rather than the person other people have been trying to mould me into becoming. It is shameful that some teachers continue to beat children inhumanely in the name of discipline. I hope Eid-ul-Azha was a time for them to pause, reflect and make anew and stop this corporal punishment in schools, which is sheer madness and scandalous behaviour. Sumi Feroz Farmgate E-mail: regina.feroz2006@gmail.com