Do you think that the non-resident Bengalis should have the right to vote in the upcoming election? Justify your answer. What do you think will be the proper way to implement the voting system?
Idea Center
Name: Sharfuddin Ahmed
- Email: bd_shamiti@yahoo.de
- Address: Hamburg,Germany
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism
- Ideas/Suggestions: Now Current Most Powerfull and Profitable Business is Aviation and Tourism, Bangladesh had lot of Oppurtunity to earn Millions of €/$ , we are NRB each year fly to Bangladesh without our National Carrier (so called Bangladesh Biman) When we give to Biman Forign Management ist become a profitable Company, I live in Germany hier i have seen so many Profitable Low-Budget airlines , If our ministrey need my assistance or Help i am allways to able to helping Bangladesh,I have a Dream ones upons a day Bangladesh likes to be Dubai or Abu-Dhabi, Our neighbour India ,Thailand also takes this oppourtunity from Forign Invester We are Not Poor ,Past of our history we are very much Strongest Busines peoples, I belive this Kloledge is Power,we Have So many Population so that this our POWER 140milx2hands =280mil Hands we are one of the leargest Workin Population , All ready we proved it in Garments sector, We shall over come !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Political situation???????????????????????? i have no idea in dhaka 30 dec 2007 i was in the Seminar Nr.15 ,I like to Develap our country
Name: Khaza Moinuddin
- Email: khazamoin@gmail.com
- Address: Antwerpen, Belgium
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources
- Ideas/Suggestions: Dhaka,31/12/2007 Dear Scholars of Bangladesh, Since our country Bangladesh is facing a lot of energy problems and which will not be easy to solve with our gas or coal to produce enough energy and electricity that we need,(and we should stop burn up our gas and coal to create energy as we don’t have much left) in such a situation I would like to introduce you a best possibility which will be by secured modular and transportable nuclear power units which is called SGR (simplified gas cooled reactor) This kind’s of SGR plant also easy to build up for 20 Mw Elect. Power to as much Mwe Power we need. This is fueled by the inherent safe pebble Balls and this kinds of project can be set-up within two years to produce reliable energy and electricity. And the cost price is very reasonable. The SGR is able to compete in an effective way with the emerging competition from independent power producers (IPPs) and complies with the stringent environmental regulation. It is a good solution in the upcoming uncertainties in the fossil fuel markets where the prices are very volatile. I do feel that SGR can contribute in a substantial way to provide the economy with cost effective and reliable electricity and additional energy related features such as:- Thermal energy, water desalination, distillation and disinfection, food preservation, hospital equipment disinfection, heat for industrial purposes ( hydrogen production for the coming hydrogen economy, coal liquefaction, coal gasification, cement industry, textile, aluminum etc.)I live in Belgium and I had a few meeting in EUROPE with the concerned nuclear scientists supporting the SGR. And I requested all of them to introduce such a project as SGR for my country Bangladesh, and they agreed to support us as it is very much in need to develop the country and for the beautiful future indeed. In the meantime the only company that realizes such a project is CALA CASA SGR CONSORTIUM. If we invite the Cala Casa group of technician and nuclear experts they are prepared to come to Bangladesh for a presentation and to discuss the possibilities for SGR technological transfer, procurement, installation and market introduction, and to finalize the financial and commercial proposal. I am convinced that this proposal is in the benefit of the people of BANGLADESH and it is my wish to contribute to the welfare of the state. Some times ago the proposal already submitted to the honourable Adviser / To the Secretary of the Ministry of Power and Energy and to the Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, But unfortunately no comment yet. I really wish that Bangladesh Gov. and the Scholars of Bangladesh without any delay should come forward with me and invite those leading scientist of Europe to Bangladesh and should listen to them and let them contribute with there technology to our Bangladesh. I will be pleased to answer any further questions to this matter. I am in Bangladesh now, feel free to call me 01715178798 Email : khazamoin@gmail.com Khaza Moinuddin Belgium
Name: Omer Selim Sher
- Email: ossher2003@yahoo.ca
- Address: Ottawa, Canada
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry:
- Ideas/Suggestions: Equitable and balance taxation system along with payroll taxtion should be implemented for Bangladesh. As wll as EI system for urban employees. Myself involved with Canadian Taxation system for 30 years can help Bangladesh acheive this strategy,
Name: M.A.Razzak
- Email: mdarajz@yahoo.com
- Address: Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs
- Ideas/Suggestions: Land registration system must be updated on the pragmatic measures through the developed countries' experiences viz. nordic countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Albania, Check republic and others where all related services are available from registration umbrella.
Name: VIJAYAKUMAR NAIR
- Email: vijayakumar.nair@yahoo.com
- Address: Dubai, UAE
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Information
- Ideas/Suggestions: I had been to Dhaka and Chittagong recently on an official visit & could not see much of a difference than Indian cities. If India can progress at a faster pace of 9% why can't Bangladesh with all its natural resources & scenic advantages. Branding & Marketing of Bangladesh is the need of the hour to attract more and more FDIs.
Name: Russel Ahmed Apu
- Email: raapu@ucalgary.ca
- Address: Calgary, Canada
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Parliament Secretariat
- Ideas/Suggestions: I believe that our country needs to restore fairness in the system and eliminate corruption. My suggestion to aid this situation is to offer a commission based salary to Govt. officials. Every Govt. process should have a service fees and a part of that fees should be given to the officer as an incentive. The amount of compensation will be determined from the statistical data such that a Govt. employee can make a fair and decent salary by working hard and efficiently. In return, an employee will sign an anti-corruption agreement such that: 1. Allow any servicee to have a concealed recording device (AKA a simple cellphone) while being serviced. 2. In case a bribe is demanded or implicated, or a service is refused, a victim can send the recording anonymously to an anti-corruption task force. 3. upon receiving evidence an anti-corruption task force must take action within one week through an accelerated anti-corruption justice arm. The commission based salary system should benefit all entities in the following way: 1. A servicee will have the option to receive quality service and good response with slightly elevated service charge 2. Employee can make a decent wage without incurring heavy costs to the govt 3. Govt will experience an increase in performance and thus an increase in revenue.
Name: M. M. Chowdhury
- Email: mchowdhury@amreteck.com
- Address: Corvallis, OR, USA
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Health
- Ideas/Suggestions: Discussion: 1) Mr. M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu), USA will provide a PowerPoint presentation on the proposal to give a boost to the Bangladesh pharmaceutical sector and will take Q & A from the guests. 2) The main topics of this meeting will be how Bangladesh can lay the ground works to attract more foreign and local investment, build multiple pharmaceutical plants, develop this sector to create more high paid jobs, help to export more medicines, earn target of at least $3 Billion foreign exchange within 3-4 years. 3) What can Bangladesh Govt do right now to lay the ground works to expand this sector like Garments industries? 4) What can Bangladesh Drug administration do to uphold the standard of medicines compare to US FDA, EU and or WHO? 5) What can Bangladesh pharmaceutical companies do to compete with foreign competitors to achieve more export markets in the world? What kind of strategies or plans need to be adopted by the Bangladesh Pharmaceutical companies to be granted to the world market? 6) What strategies should we take to bring more than US$3 Billion investment in this sector by next year? 7) What is the time line to make progress in various process/components? 8) What are the opportunities for Bangladesh Pharmaceutical companies? 9) What are the challenges for Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies today and how they can over come that? 10) Roundtable discussion and hear from all the guests at the meeting. 11) Make a binding resolution from this discussion and work on implementation process. Pharmaceuticals manufacturing opportunity in Bangladesh: Today Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies produce approximately 97% of local medicines needs in Bangladesh. Medicines are exported to more than 32 countries in the world. Pharmaceuticals manufacturing opportunities in Bangladesh is brighter than ever since it has low cost high skilled manpower compare to other countries in the world and received Least Developed Country (LDC) status until 2016 from the World Trade organization (WTO) at Doha, Qatar. With 6 billion people in the world and greater aging population, the need for medicine is greater than ever. Today $800 Billion dollars world medicines market will expand to $1.6 Trillion dollars by 2035. Costs of medicines are increasing as well. So cheap medicines will trump the world and its manufacturing businesses especially in Bangladesh. This is a win-win situation for both Bangladesh and foreign pharmaceutical or investment companies because investors/companies will get high return of its investment and this will create high paid jobs in Bangladesh. There are few world class pharmaceuticals manufacturing companies who have their own manufacturing plant or contract manufacturing plant in Bangladesh. Novartis and Aventis are the leading in contract manufacturing activities in Bangladesh. Cost of medicines has increased in China and India since they have entered to WTO. Bangladesh has unique opportunity to bring down the cost of manufacturing medicines due to the low cost high qualified manpower and its LDC status. I predict that Bangladesh pharmaceutical sector can add more than $10 billion to the GDP if more foreign investments can be brought to build multiple pharmaceutical plants in Bangladesh within 5 years. This sector can create more than a million high paid jobs in Bangladesh within 3-5 years if good and real policies are adopted. Policies and Action Plans need to be adopted: The following main points will be discussed and more retails will be presented in the meeting: I) Develop four (4) EPZs for the Pharmaceutical Sectors (one in Mymensingh, one in Syhlet, one in Chittagong, and One in Munshigonj). Each of the EPZ will be at least 500 acres and will be ready to build API plants and Pharmaceuticals plants by August 2008. An aggressive implementation plan is required to meet the date line. II) Develop a committee with local and foreign experts (foreign experts are more important to achieve this goal) and dispatch to various countries including Middle East, EU, China, and USA to provide the presentation about the mega projects (4 EPZs) and provide tax incentives to the investors and or investment groups to invest to build contract manufacturing plants and Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredient (API) Plants in Bangladesh. Middle East countries have access of more than $1 trillion and looking for invest in the emerging markets in next few years. We should take aggressive plan to attract their investment. III) Provide incentives to local pharmaceutical companies to join-venture between them which will provide more capital and have access to more investment and will able to produce quality medicines and able to get more foreign market shares. IV) Bangladesh now should focus on API plants and export raw materials to USA or EU for now, and then work on exporting medicines to those countries. Ground work has to be done before we will able to export to those countries. Fix the Bangladesh Drug Administration: 1) Submit and Implement new strict regulations for the Pharmaceuticals Companies in Bangladesh. Medicines manufactured for local and foreign market will have to have right and full active ingredients. Most of the medicines manufactured for the local market in Bangladesh does not work in patient since there are no strict regulations and penalty implement by Bangladesh Drug Administration. 2) Remove corruption from Bangladesh Drug Administration. 3) Provide a budget to train a group of pharmaceuticals inspectors with the help of US FDA. 4) Implement the policy to shut down any pharmaceutical company who failed to meet the standards of manufacturing quality medicines after two warning. This policy is not for shutting down a company but to encourage quality medicines for local and foreign markets. 5) Provide tax break if a company spend on pharmaceuticals training by foreign experts for next 10 years. 6) There are 5 -6 big pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh and rest of the pharmaceutical companies are like a mom and pop shop who do not have resources, equipment, or means to manufacture quality medicines. Bangladesh Gov’t must adopt a policy to encourage them to merge between medium and small pharmaceutical companies or foreign companies by giving 3 years tax break on profit and no tax on imported equipment/system for a new plant for the combined companies. 7) Encourage local and or foreign banks to provide low interest rate loan to those merged companies for building the new plants. Policy to expand Bangladesh medicine export markets 1) Adopt new policies to encourage foreign and local investment in the pharmaceutical industries. Provide 10 years tax break for foreign pharmaceutical companies. 2) Raise foreign office expenditure from $2,500 to $200,000 to explore international medicines market. 3) Build an independent pharmaceutical laboratory with the help of private sector in Bangladesh. This laboratory is essential for the analytical testing for manufactured medicines for local and foreign markets. 4) Expedite the project to allocate land to build the Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredient (API) and Drugs manufacturing Plants in Bangladesh. 5) Submit and implement new policy and budget to promote better education in the pharmaceuticals sector. Revise the curriculums to match international standards education in the pharmaceuticals sector. 6) Help Bangladesh to build knowledge based society. 7) Create 10 lakh jobs within 5 years in the pharmaceuticals sector in Bangladesh. 8) Adopt a policy to bring back all the professionals, businessmen, and experts’ expatriates from the foreign soil to help build this sector for a better Bangladesh. End Goal: We need to give a boost in this sector with all the available options, not just talk about or provide a wish list, let’s get an implementation process which will provide benefit for Bangladesh for years to come. Time Line: Four EPZs should be ready by August 2008. 85% of all plants will be built on these EPZs by August 2010 and will be operational by the end of 2010. We will urge concern Bangladesh representatives and Embassy of Bangladesh at Washington DC Embassy to covey our proposal on technical assistance and advisory help to Bangladesh to give a boost for the pharmaceuticals sector in Bangladesh. This policy will lay down the ground works for future benefits in Bangladesh. This meeting/proposal/technical assistance will be a courtesy of Change Bangladesh Organization, USA broader vision for Bangladesh to create more jobs, develop the pharmaceutical sector and increase the buying power of the people of Bangladesh with creating high paid jobs. The success of this proposal will be depended on the end users (Bangladesh Govt and People) if they adopt and implement it. All we can try is to push them to accept better policy to get better future benefit. This meeting/proposal/technical assistance will give Bangladesh Govt. a unique opportunity to assess all available options to move this sector forward for the country. Regards, The Change Bangladesh Team, USA www.changebangladesh.org Emails: Info@changebangladesh.com cgmpservices@yahoo.com
Name: Md. Minhaj Billah
- Email: minhaj.billah@gmail.com
- Address: chittagong,Bangladesh
- Published Date: 24th Jan, 2024 - Published by Scholars Bangladesh Society
- Ministry: Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology
- Ideas/Suggestions: I have to say that our it based industrial sector doesn't grow properly.I think this is the reason for lack of technical knowledge.At first,we'll need proper education system. I mean that when a student complete his/her graduation or any level of study,he/she must be able to do something at his/her level.I also want to say that i didn't see more it based industry and industrialist.We have to motivate our businessmen to involve in it based industry.