Traffic jam limiting our economic growth
Monday, 8 December 2008
Mahbubul Haque
RECENT credit crunch in the USA and in so of the European countries have cast a gloomy picture on the economic arena of many countries. It is almost a recession in many countries. We have noticed fall of share prices in world stock markets. Many big corporate houses have terminated thousands of employees to save the deteriorating condition.
The wave of recession will definitely affect the other countries like Bangladesh. The fall of price of many goods including fuel will cut the income of many companies resulting cut in the wages and termination from services. Bangladesh now depends largely on foreign remittances. The fall of price of petroleum products in the Middle East will tell upon the income earning of the foreign workers there.
We need to face the challenge well ahead of the declining situation. We need to keep our export unhampered. Usually people buy more when the prices is low. We need to keep our production cycle unhindered.
Free-flow of goods and good communication are the prerequisites to good production. Time factor is always a step to good quantity of production.
Dhaka is the capital city of one of the most crowded counties in the world. People are running to Dhaka to get work, to get good education and hospital treatment etc. Each and every road, lane and by-lane are crowded.
The school- and college-students, patients and working people are helplessly spending their idle time sitting in the transport for want of easy passage to the destination. The factories are remaining shut for want of easy availability of raw materials or for making quick availability of finished goods to the market place.
Traffic jam has become a routine affair. The rickshaw-pullers and other vehicular transport drivers are charging high because of time killing. It is needless to say about this problem. But the problem is spreading to other towns and cities of the country.
The present govt., which will leave office very soon is not taking up any effective, short or long term, action whatsoever. The next govt. will definitely tell that nothing has happened in the last two years so they will seek time. By that time, things will only further worsen.
No body is taking seriously about birth rate. Nobody is admonishing the people to stay in the country side and pick up job there.
If we can not stop the movement of the people from the country-side, working force will shrink there. We need to draw a plan right now to stop traffic jam.
Opportunities for alternative roads, river routes, underground roads, rail etc., should be explored. Office-school-timing should in reconsidered. We should learn to walk to office or riding cycle to make room for economic growth.
RECENT credit crunch in the USA and in so of the European countries have cast a gloomy picture on the economic arena of many countries. It is almost a recession in many countries. We have noticed fall of share prices in world stock markets. Many big corporate houses have terminated thousands of employees to save the deteriorating condition.
The wave of recession will definitely affect the other countries like Bangladesh. The fall of price of many goods including fuel will cut the income of many companies resulting cut in the wages and termination from services. Bangladesh now depends largely on foreign remittances. The fall of price of petroleum products in the Middle East will tell upon the income earning of the foreign workers there.
We need to face the challenge well ahead of the declining situation. We need to keep our export unhampered. Usually people buy more when the prices is low. We need to keep our production cycle unhindered.
Free-flow of goods and good communication are the prerequisites to good production. Time factor is always a step to good quantity of production.
Dhaka is the capital city of one of the most crowded counties in the world. People are running to Dhaka to get work, to get good education and hospital treatment etc. Each and every road, lane and by-lane are crowded.
The school- and college-students, patients and working people are helplessly spending their idle time sitting in the transport for want of easy passage to the destination. The factories are remaining shut for want of easy availability of raw materials or for making quick availability of finished goods to the market place.
Traffic jam has become a routine affair. The rickshaw-pullers and other vehicular transport drivers are charging high because of time killing. It is needless to say about this problem. But the problem is spreading to other towns and cities of the country.
The present govt., which will leave office very soon is not taking up any effective, short or long term, action whatsoever. The next govt. will definitely tell that nothing has happened in the last two years so they will seek time. By that time, things will only further worsen.
No body is taking seriously about birth rate. Nobody is admonishing the people to stay in the country side and pick up job there.
If we can not stop the movement of the people from the country-side, working force will shrink there. We need to draw a plan right now to stop traffic jam.
Opportunities for alternative roads, river routes, underground roads, rail etc., should be explored. Office-school-timing should in reconsidered. We should learn to walk to office or riding cycle to make room for economic growth.