www.bangladesh.gov.bd
Bangladeshmoves Desk revised on 24 October, 2010:
The above mentioned website represents the different organs of the Government of Bangladesh. Whatever assistance you receive from the Government as a citizen is delivered by those organs. According to the constitution of Bangladesh, the public servants are defined as follow:
“21(2) every person in the service of the Republic has a duty to strive at all times to serve the people.”
A citizen of Bangladesh, however, has particular responsibility which is defined as follow:
“21(1) It is the duty of every citizen to observe the Constitution and the laws, to maintain discipline, to perform public duties and to protect public property.”
With balanced complaince of the responsibility by both of the parties, the objectives of the Bangladeshi nation might be met. And for that reason it is imperative to have easy accesibility of the people to the GOB's organs and in that regard as a citizen you should go through the National Web Portal for quick and direct entrance to Ministry/ Department just clicking to the site. For the research or mere obatining the latest news, you are again advised to visit the site which may save your valuable time and to abridge the gap between the state and citizen.
Just click: www.bangladesh.gov.bd
But your venture to obtain information for public interets is being barred through trickery that I request to mind. For instance, on 23 October, 2010 when I clicked on www.gobfinance.org to collect data for the comparison of the achievement of the present Government, I did not found the matter rather I discovered other thing which is enclosed. It is a misdeed which might have done by the system administrator of that office who knows the password either by his own discretion or from the command of the superior.
The system administrator's such perilous trick was experienced by me at Bureau of Manpower. In December 2009, one day, when I clicked the website of the Bureau, the interface that was appeared was the web of the recruiting agent's association.Domain name was same but content of the association. When I contacted with the IT head of the Bureau of Manpower, he excused that since electricity in the server room was not ok such problem might have occurred. Under the specific domain, different content can not be appeared unless otherwise handled. If server was malfunctioned ' page can not be found' such message should be appeared. The web of BAIRA should not be appeared and it is impossible. After half an hour when I again clicked I found the actual content. So far I discovered the concerned officer quickly fixed up the problem. Barring the information of the GOB, the association cyndicate tries to make their interest secured. Aided by the IT official of the Bureau, such information barricade was carried out which I personally faced. Regarding www.gobfinance.org, I am to say that such a trick might have been applied so that the public may not compare to the data of the present GOB which may help to realize the fact.
In addition, when I went to obtain the list of registered IT institutions in Bangladesh from the Technical Education Board at Agargaon in Dhaka I had to encounter the same difficulty. The concerned IT officer and other research officer refused to give me the list .Whearas the list should be obtainable and the website has made a menu for that; however, the link as been removed. Investigation revealed that the illegal IT institutes those do not offer proper IT education pay bribe to an association which is closely associated with the Board to hide the information so that public may not get the information which IT institutions are genuine; consequently peoples are cheated.Through such ambguity the service is poorly offered and the standard of eductaion is down ward. Later when I met with the Secretary and Chairman of the board , they could not but gave me the printed copy from the IT division.
In fact, disruption of the service by dashing out information obtainable by the citizen through the website is the conseuence of corruption, mismanagement of the government employees. This type of indifference and ambiguity shows that public administration is not properly functioning aiming to build Digital Bangladesh. If such irregularity is gone on for months then cann't it be said that such offence is offended by the consent of the apex authority of the state. Such trick is conflicting to the service rules indeed.
Bangladeshmoves, as an independent reviewer, will not abstain from, inshallah, tracing such ambiguity once found. Noted that if we can not present the review regularly it will mean that we are in different job since 100% concentration to the site work, we can not maintain our livelihood. So I request to any patriotic responsible citizen to visit: www.bangladesh.gov.bd and highlight the ambiguity once he/she finds. Through balanced and constructive interactions between the state and the citizen may lift the arrogant irresponsible state mechanism in to right track.
On 23 October, 2010 what I found while to visit:
That domain name (www.gobfinance.org) is printed on back of ‘Bangladesh Economic Survey 2005' a printed copy which is kept on my possession. The printed report which is for distribution free of cost is sold by 200 taka at Press Club, New Market Book shop and various law book shops just now. In that circumstance, while website should be an easy source is also dismantled. In addition, why does this popular domain name is ready to be sold? Who is responsible for this?
14.01.2011
‘ Bangladesh Code'
linked out from the web-site of the Ministry:
Accessibility barred.
Bangladeshmoves Investigation, 11 January, 2011:
Amidst the fever of building ‘Digital Bangladesh' , another bad news has recently been offered from the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh, since the link of a collection of Laws of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Code) annexed the website: www.minlaw.gov.bd therein in 2008 which had facilitated the accessibility to the interested quarters, mainly deal with the legal affairs of Bangladesh, has been caused disappeared from the website and absence of providing rejoinder regarding the disappearance has brought many questions, and an urgent response whether the same has been relocated or not is desirable to be known from the same authority too. In addition, the non-availability of the software of laws of Bangladesh made by the same Ministry in 2008 caused similar frustration. Collection of laws in the internet and via CD (software) have been contributing much lessening the sufferings from the hassle of obtaining the laws of Bangladesh since 2008. Hard copy of laws published by BG press is at time tougher to obtain out of publication which may be separately discussed. Apart from scarecity, hard copy of Bangladesh Code is expansive and while sold in black market it becomes more excessive. Since to establish rule of law and digitalization of information are the demand of the time and commitment of the present government, such link out has raised many questions.
So it is our humble request to the authority to reinsert the link of Bangladesh Code immediately which is, in fact, an essential resource for the person or group work to establish rule of law and digitilization in the country.
1.11.2010
www.police.gov.bd and www.dmp.gov.bd :
Crime List not updated
Bangladeshmoves DESK, 1 November-2010:
To realize the vision and mission so prescribed by the Police funneled from the Ministry of Home Affairs in part of the TOP-BOTTOM decision making system, the same provides for its personnel in- http://www.police.gov.bd/index5.php?category=2 ,must not be cope with unless the up-gradation of information is ensured with positive progress.
Vision: To provide service to all citizens and make Bangladesh a better and safer place to live and work.
Mission :
- To uphold the rule of law;
- To ensure safety and security of citizens;
- To prevent and detect crime;
- To bring offenders to justice;
- To maintain peace and public order .
In realizing the concept of Digital Bangladesh and in reality of the binding to be transparent in accordance with the mission of the vision aiming to the citizen, it is the declaration of the top decision making body of the GOB to provide data and information so that the overall performance of the public administration may be available, but I have been shaken when website of Police and Dhaka Metropolitan Police, www.police.gov.bd and www.dmp.gov.bd respectively been browsed. When I was looking for the statistics of crime of last two months, I have been frustrated that in www.police.gov.bd , the statistics of October-2009 is available and statistics of the subsequent months up to this October-2010 completely omitted.
On the other hand, when I visited www.dmp.gov.bd for procuring the crime statistics of the month of September-2010 and October-2010, I found no data given, that means to set aside the controversy of the poor performance of the department, such abstinence has been mounted.
In fact, different sources provide that law and order is repeatedly deteriorating in Bangladesh and in that situation for the Good Governance when GOB ought to provide alert observation and update of information accordingly, it is however, seen absent. Is Ministry of Home Affairs in particular and GOB at large is really justifying the mission and vision of this Department.