Monthly income of Taka 5000/- only

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IN 1950's and 1960's a person could meet his food, accommodation and miscellaneous expenses within Taka 100/- to 200/- only in Dhaka. But in 2010 no person can anyhow live and survive in Dhaka if the source of his or her monthly income is less than Taka 5000/-.
A daily wage labourer, a rickshaw puller or anybody else cannot breathe in the crowded and busy city of Dhaka unless and until he earns a minimum Taka 5000/- per month or some kind-hearted gentleman helps him.
The face of Dhaka has changed. Its nomenclature has also changed from time to time, from city of mosque to city of mosquitos, to city of rickshaws to city of 'bustees' to city of a concrete jungle.
Everybody, rich and poor, is running after money without caring for life and death of anybody. In the midst of crowd, it appears that a man is walking alone in the desert.
Some people dine, drink and dance in five-star hotels, hold conferences, meetings and seminars and the rest of the people stare vacantly, hungrily and nakedly. Government employees from the lowest to the highest level, whether work or no work, whether an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) or a Secretary draw their monthly handsome pay and allowances from the public exchequer but poor and low income people are hit by price-hike of essential goods and commodities and waiting on long queues of open market sales (OMS).
Further the fractious polity, marred by the antagonism between ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the activities of government employees make the socio-economic condition and the plight of the administration most miserable and the sufferings of the people know no bound.
Since independence our foreign loans amount to fifty billion US dollars and now our per head amount of loan is Taka 10,430, Are we getting richer or poor day by day?
Our High Court and Supreme Court are always busy attending the cases of our rich and affluent persons, keeping lakhs of cases pending. Chairman of Bangladesh national Human Rights Commission (BNHRC) Prof Mr Mizanur Rahman says, 'Rule of law is absolutely absent in the country.' He said justice was not for the poor in Bangladesh rather only for the rich as the poor were unable to purchase it.
We are all a nation, born and brought up in Bangladesh; we are all Bangladeshis. Let us live and let live, give up our jealousy, greediness, hatred and enmity among ourselves and save our motherland Bangladesh.
O. H. Kabir
6, Hare Street,, Wari, Dhaka-1203