Need for an integrated transport system
If bus routes are rationalised, it will help develop uniform and acceptable service rules for owners and workers so necessary to regulate the transport sector...
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Investment in BR deserves better scrutiny
Almost a decade ago, Bangladesh Railway launched a 30-year master plan to expand rail coverage to all 64 districts of the country and modernise its services. The master plan included a total of 230 projects scheduled to be implemented...
Delivering healthcare on the doorstep
As high as 62 per cent of Bangladesh population lives in the countryside. Strangely, 75 per cent of its doctors and nurses serve the urban residents, who make up only 38 per cent of the population. Evidently, the statistics provided by Bang...
Challenge of reviving SOEs is daunting
When investment in the industrial sector is hard to come by, asking for outlays for revival of sick or closed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) sounds rather paradoxical. Time and again, such initiatives have caused waste of funds. The reason...
Reform cannot wait as banking crisis deepens
The country's banking sector continues to make screaming headlines. Recent media reports inform that, by the end of 2025, distressed loans across all scheduled banks had surged by more than 47 per cent to Tk 10.08 trillion --- an amount tha...
Moving beyond the rhetoric of urban transit reform
Transport reform has been promised so often in Bangladesh that new announcements are usually met with more scepticism than enthusiasm. The government's latest plan, centred on route-based uniform bus services and a renewed push for electric...
Why containing measles remains elusive
Infections from measles and suspected measles leading to severe cases, hospitalisation and even deaths have been showing no sign of abating despite the government's claim to the contrary that its special nationwide Measles-Rubella (MR) vacc...
Surge in distressed loans cause for serious concern
The latest figures of distressed loans in the country's banking sector paint a deeply troubling picture of a financial system struggling under the weight of accumulated weaknesses. A sharp rise in distressed assets is not merely a banking-s...
Relocation of city's four bus terminals
Traffic congestion in Dhaka has become so severe that it wastes a major portion of the working hours of the commuters. Depending on the distance between their houses and workplaces, they need to start commuting much earlier than they would...
Implementing reforms, automation of tax regime
Bangladesh's revenue collection has grown more slowly than the economy over the past decade. That means, though the economy has expanded significantly, the tax system has failed to capture the newly generated wealth. Overreliance on m...
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