Bangladesh get a record $1 billion from the World Bank over the last two years and the inclination is likely to continue in the current fiscal year to June 2010, the World Bank’s Bangladesh country director Ellen Goldstein said on Tuesday.

“The amount flowing into the country far exceeds repayments, so the World Bank makes a strong positive contribution to development in Bangladesh,” said Ellen Goldstein, who joined as country director last month.

“The World Bank will seek to commit a similar amount in the current year in line with the government priorities,” it said in a statement.

During her initial meeting with Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Ellen Goldstein reaffirmed the World Bank’s willingness to increase supports for the growth-enhancing infrastructure, social development and nutrition programs as well as local delivery of public services.

In addition to disbursements from the existing portfolio, the World Bank committed a record amount of over $ 1 billion for new operations during the last fiscal year (FY09), the statement said, adding that many of these operations are beginning to disburse this year.

The World Bank continues to maintain disbursements during the current year under its existing projects.

The amendments in the public procurement act (PPA) 2006 concern only local procurement contracts, which are less than a third of total World Bank-funded procurement.

“To ensure smooth continuation of local procurement, the World Bank has already sent revised financing agreements for the World Bank-financed projects to the government for counter signature,” the statement added.

Ms. Goldstein, who joined as the Country Director in November this year, also met recently with ministers, secretaries and members of the civil society with whom she engaged in development dialogue.

The country’s priorities will be reflected in the World Bank’s new Country Assistance Strategy for 2010-2013, which is now under preparation, according to the statement.

She also offered Bangladesh, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, the World Bank’s support for effective implementation of its Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan.

 
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Victory day (16th December)is celebrated on December 16 in Bangladesh. On this day in 1971, the Pakistani Army surrendered to the Indo-Bangladeshi High Command in Dhaka, ending a 9 month war of independence leaded by Bongo-Bondhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman. Pakistani General AAK Niazi surrendered officially to the Allied forces commander General Jagjit Singh Aurora. Bangladesh gained independence after 9 months of a long and bloody struggle.

“Ek sagar roktar vinimoy banglar sadinota…. tomay amora proti mohortay soron kori.”.

The whole nation today celebrates the 39th anniversary of its glorious Victory Day to uphold the spirit of liberation, secularism and democracy as opposed to autocracy, theocracy and/or, any closed system that hinder peoples progress. Please accept our warmest greetings on occasion of the 38th Victory Day of Bangladesh.

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 Happiest Nation

Happy people

Happy policies.

Real Education

High level Moral standard of all nationals.

Police is a vital department of a contry,to execute as a successful governance system ,it is must to build up a loyal and ideal police department.
Bangladesh’s police force is in such a “dire state” that it risks inviting a military takeover of law and order duties, an international research institute has warned.

The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report published over the weekend that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government lacked the political will to reform the police force despite a UN-led effort to do so.

The ICG said the police force was a “tool to line the pockets of politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen,” and that if Hasina’s government did not reform the system, the army could step in.

“The dire state of the force reflects failures by successive governments,” the report said.

“The inability of the police to ensure law and order has provided the military with opportunities to intervene in politics, using the pretext of national security to derail the democratic process.”

Hasina’s government came to power in January after two years of rule by an army-backed government.

She was jailed for a year by the military regime but then released as part of a deal to take part in the December 2008 election, which she won with a three-quarters majority.

The UN has spent 16.5 million dollars trying to reform the system over the past four years, but the ICG said impact had been “marginal” and the police force remained overstretched and underpaid.

Home Minister Sahara Khatun insisted Monday that progress had been made under the new government.

Police abuses for political gain “happened in the past, but not in our time. And also the law and order situation is now better,” she told AFP.

But one senior police official, who requested anonymity, said little had changed.

“No government is serious enough to carry out police reforms here. We have talked about it for long. But we are fed up,” the official said.

In February this year, Hasina’s newly elected government was nearly overthrown following a mutiny at a military base in the capital.

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