City Desk :
Energy, Road Transport and Railways Affairs Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Saturday said the interim government has started institutional reform works aimed at preventing corruption and ensuring transparency and accountability in all sectors. “We have started institutional reform works as we are responsible to martyred and injured students of July uprising not any vested group,” he said while addressing a seminar at a local hotel, reports BSS.
The adviser said the interim government has destroyed the infrastructures connected to corruption, because mass people became angry against the last government.
Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum (BSRF) organized the seminar on Harmonizing Reform and Sustainable Infrastructure Development for a Prosperous Bangladesh with its President Fasih Uddin Mahtab in the chair.
Professor Department of Economics, Director, Economic Research Platform Dr AKM Atiqur Rahman presented a keynote paper, while General Secretary of BSRF Masudul Hoque moderated the seminar.
In his keynote, he highlighted some points and suggested for reforms. The points are feasibility study would have to more objective, it was seen some tendency to inflate benefit and underestimate cost of projects, which turned into attractive in Bangladesh.
Dr AKM Atiqur said a system should be developed to conduct feasibility study with professionals and no upper tier interference to bias the study.
“We have not ascended to power, we assumed the responsibility,” he noted saying “so every project should be considered based on people’s interest not for the vested group,” the adviser said.
He said the previous government implemented various projects for the interest of their nexus like vested group, relatives and individual, they grabbed huge amount of money from those big projects.
