Eradicate corruption to remove poverty, bring stability
Speakers tell roundtable
Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a roundtable stressed integrated efforts to eradicate poverty and eliminate corruption that will ensure stability in the county, and said it is impossible to eradicate poverty without ensuring quality education and good governance. Political instability and corruption create and sustain poverty, they said. The Hunger Project (THP) organised the roundtable on "poverty, discrimination and stability of the state" at the National Press Club in the city yesterday. THP Country Director Badiul Alam Majumdar presented the keynote paper. Prof Muzaffer Ahmed said present power structure is responsible for creation of poverty. He also emphasised poor-friendly distribution of wealth. "State fails to perform its duty properly and so the structure of military dictatorship is still going on," he said. Badiul Alam in his keynote paper hoped that the caretaker government would consider empowering the poor people in the next national budget. He also said,"Poverty, deprivation and discrimination are creating a possible large-scale instability." adding the foundation of state may be at peril if the next elected government does not take necessary steps in this regard". Shah Abdul Hannan said family planning should be the main agenda to reduce poverty. Nurul Huda urged the caretaker government to bring the corrupt people to book. Among others Syed Abul Maksud, Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque, Ibrahim Khaled and Mohiuddin Ahmed were present in the meeting.
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