Bangladesh is a rich country; why so many people are poor?
Microscopic Eye
Bangladesh is a rich country. Are you lost, don’t be. Really Bangladesh is a rich country.
Bangladesh is rich in natural resources and human resources. Bangladesh has around 150
million people, more then required, skilled and unskilled. Moreover, Bangladesh has natural gas, coal, fertile land and enough sunshine which allow three crops per year in most of her lands.
In spite of being rich, a large portion of her population lives in poverty. 50 % of her populations live under the national poverty line according to World Bank. What is the single major reason behind such pathetic condition? Isn’t it the poor utilization of all of its resources?
Actually weak management of power, time, human resources and land is the key reason for such a large proportion of people being poor.
So we need to handle all our resources from management point of view. Improvement of management of all of these resources, particularly human resources, should be the key point in our policy formation to make Bangladesh a developed rich country from rich developing country in a short period of time.
The population, hard working, intelligent, resilient and empathetic, is the most important and everlasting resource for Bangladesh. The best use of this resource for itself deserves a holistic attitude and approach and best possible management. So we should have Human Resources Management Division under the Prime Minister office, if not a Resources Management Ministry. We should immediately form such division. This specialized division for special task of management of “best resource” should be formed with specialized people. Certainly these specialized people are MBA majoring in Human Resources. They should also be supplemented with best psychology and statistics and Marketing graduate of the country. The division will be divided into a number of team or group and lead by the best Human resource Manager of the country. Different group of the Division should be assigned to device policy and procedure for the management of the assigned population group. Each group will comprise of two human resource graduates, one psychologist, one statistician and one marketing graduate specialized in advertisement.
Human resource managers will make plan for management of the assigned population group considering the psychological study, statistical analysis of the population group and the advertisement specialist will communicate the national policy to that population group effectively and easily so that they know the policy well, become motivated to take advantages of the management policy and procedures.
Devising policy is of no use if not implemented efficiently. So implementation mechanism for management of different group of populations, children, adolescent, youth, Women, Men, Retired and tribal, rural and urban and farmers, should be “must do” assigned task of the respective group of the division. Implementation of the devised policy will be the performance criteria for the team or group devising the policy and procedure. Based on the efficiency in implementing their policy and procedure measured by improvement of that particular group of population over 3-5 years, the team will be evaluated and rewarded. The division devising policy and procedure for Farmers’ management will implement their policy through Agriculture Ministry, Group working for youth will implement their policy through Youth Ministry, and Division working for Non Resident Bangladeshi (NBR) will implement their policy through foreign employment and welfare Ministry.
The division should not be traditional like other Ministry or divisions. The division will be formed with smart people who themselves will make their own tea, coffee, type their own letter both in Bangla and English, drive their own car. So no peon, no driver, no computer operator will be employed for them. Only cleaner and security guard can be provided. All other accessory works should be done by themselves. As they will do all of their clerical work of their own, they will be compensated with additional benefits. These additional benefits will draw meritorious graduates.
We should vote for the parties that will include such “managerial view” in their election manifesto in the upcoming election.
