Present Days

 

Since 1991 the two major parties are ruling and through the years Bangladesh has witnessed problems one worse than the others. Corruption has now become an inevitable part of the country. Every sector more or less comes under the grasp of corruption and crime. Sectors like education, police, land and revenue departments are the most corrupted ones. Recently the problems or fails  raised due to high level of corruption are- Padma Bridge Project, The Railway Scandal, The Hall Mark Group, Destiny Group, Share Market Scam and many more. Also high level of crime and illegal activities can be seen during the National Elections every five years. And all through time blaming game continues as opposition party keeps blaming the power parties and vise verse. To stop all these problems Anti Corruption Commission was established in 2004 having Ghulam Rahman as the chairman. But soon this commission also failed. It became hard for them to investigate the politicians. As before doing so they needed a permission from the high level government officials. All these rules made it impossible. There were dismissal of 315 corruption case by the year of 2012. Padma Bridge Project which had $1.2 billion credit for the $2.9 billion project was cancelled by The World Bank in June 29, 2012 because of corruption. For last couple of years Bangladesh is on the top in world's most corrupted countries list. Last year Caribbean Country and Haiti was at the top with Bangladesh. According to Transparency International, the government of Bangladesh has not yet done anything significant to stop or lower the corruption rate. 

But there can be seen some initiatives taken by the governments sometimes. Many constructive strides have been taken by the government of Sheikh Hasina (Awami League). The relationship between India and Bangladesh has been improved for safety and for finding long term solutions. Also economy has improved by 6% and education, health especially women uplifting have been taken seriously. In spite of all the efforts it lags behind as 97% of MP's are involved in negative activities and 70% in criminal activities of any government that comes to power.

The year 2012 has been seen as the worse one so far. The police, RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) were worse that usuall. As crimes increased also kidnapping, murdering increased. Cases like the 17 year old boy, Limon Hossain who was killed did not get justice. Or like Ellias Ali from Sylhet disappeared and there are no trace of him till today.