Socialism: Utopian vs Scientific

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The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance

Abstract

Participatory budgeting has been advocated as a democratic innovation that could bring governance closer to citizens. In Bangladesh, however, democratic innovations are at the infantile stage. Only a handful of participatory budgeting projects have been initiated so far. The aim of this paper is to present the main lessons learnt from these projects and to present the impact of participatory budgeting as a tool or process to ensure good governance. While preparing this paper, it has been trying to identity and discuss, whether participatory budgeting has been successfully implemented or not and what kind of the problems participatory budgeting faced while implementing. Also focused on how Participatory Budgeting play a helpful role in establishing good governance in a such counties. After study it has been found that, Participatory budgeting is an effect of development processes, rather than a tool for achieving development goals.

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Urban Local Government Budgeting in Bangladesh: Procedure and Problems

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The history of local government is older than the history of national government. Local government started its journey from the Ancient Greece, where various types of local city states exist. Local government is also an important term of the present world. Because today’s national governments are bigger in size, and they cover a large population. For this reason, the national government handover some of its duties to the local government to give the citizens better benefits. There are two types of local government: Urban Local Government & Rural Local Government. The history of Urban Local Government in the Indian sub-continent, especially in Bangladesh started from the Mughal era. Today, most of the development of an urban area depends on the urban local government. Budgeting is one of the most important part of urban local government. In this paper, we will discuss about the procedure and problems of the urban local government budgeting in Bangladesh.

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Evaluating the Impact of E-governance in Facilitating Citizen Engagement at Local Level

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The transformative potential of e-governance in enhancing citizen engagement at the local level has garnered significant attention worldwide. This research endeavours to evaluate the impact of e-governance on fostering citizen engagement within the context of Bangladesh. The study's objectives encompass assessing citizen awareness and digital literacy's influence on e-governance participation, evaluating the efficacy of existing e-governance tools in facilitating engagement, and identifying barriers hindering citizen involvement. Employing a mixed-method approach, this research draws data from 50 respondents in the 3 No South Durgapur Union of Adarsha Sadar Upazilas, Cumilla. The findings underscore several critical aspects, including the limited digital adaptation among senior citizens and less educated segments, as well as a prevailing lack of awareness concerning e-governance initiatives and the Union Digital Centre (UDC). Insufficient service provision by the UDC, exacerbated by poor internet connectivity, compounds the challenges. Moreover, the absence of timely responses to feedback, inadequate service quality, and concerns over data privacy further impede effective e-governance adoption. The significance of this research lies in its contribution to the discourse surrounding e-governance and citizen engagement, specifically within the local governance framework of Bangladesh. The findings elucidate issues pertinent to technology adoption, service accessibility, and transparency enhancement. The study not only sheds light on barriers but also offers recommendations to surmount these obstacles, serving as a valuable resource for government agencies aiming to bolster citizen participation. Additionally, this research enriches the literature available to future scholars and researchers interested in exploring the intricate interplay between e-governance, local government dynamics, and citizen engagement.

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Why Bangladeshi people should not support the so-called student’s movement in West Bengal

Bangladesh recently gained independence from the Indian puppet fascist Hasina’s authoritarian rule. Bangladeshi students, with the support of the general people, overthrew Hasina and the Awami fascist government. A new interim government led by students came to power for a specific time. Influenced by the success of the student movement in Bangladesh, the students of Pakistan also revolted against the military dictatorship of their country. At that time, the students of West Bengal also rebelled against the West Bengal government. For this reason, some Bangladeshi students also started to support the West Bengali student movement without any background analysis.

The West Bengal student movement is not only a normal student movement. This is a preplanned, organized movement by the Indian central government’s ruling party, BJP. The Hindutva terrorist organization BJP came to power in the central government of India in 2014. After coming to power, they removed the secular, liberal, and leftist people from every sector of government, judiciary, and administration. They appointed Hindutva extremist people in every sector of the state. BJP and other Hindutva terrorist organizations made an Umbrella organization named Sangh Parivar. They also made some paramilitary terrorist units, such as Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, RSS, etc. During this time, they bought almost all of the mainstream print and electronic media industries and started to spread hate against minorities and seculars. They also brainwashed the people of India through the media. On the other hand, BJP made its IT cell, which is made to spread hate and rumors within 24 hours and brainwash people on the Hindutva terrorist ideology.

BJP takes control of almost all of the state legislative assemblies of India except Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Panjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and West Bengal. Among them, West Bengal was always free from BJP influence.

West Bengal is an educated, modern, and civilized state of India with incredible natural beauty. This is the place where Hindus and Muslims live very peacefully. But after the BJP came to power in 2014, they started to spread their toxic Hindutva terrorist ideology in the peaceful environment of West Bengal. They brainwashed several illiterate and uncivilized people and tried to break the peaceful communal harmony of West Bengal. But most of the people of West Bengal are educated. So, they choose the secular, liberal, and Bengali nationalist political party Trinamul Congress in the 2011, 2016, and 2021 general elections. Trinamul Congress and its leader, Mamata Banerjee, became the symbol of peace and the resistance against the Hindutva fascist extremism of the BJP.

BJP tried a lot to overthrow the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and its leader, Mamata Banerjee, but the peace-loving people of Bengal resisted it every time. But now, they have made a strategic plan to overthrow Mamata Banerjee. The students of India, especially the students of West Bengal, stand with the people of Bangladesh when we are fighting against Hasina’s fascist regime. They are also motivated by the Bangladeshi student’s fighting spirit. At this time, a rape of a woman occurred in a hospital in West Bengal. Rape in India is very common. Every day a lot of women are raped by Indian men. The rape rate is high in the BJP-governed states. But no one talked about it. But when a single rape occurred in West Bengal, the BJP dominated Indian media, and the BJP IT cell highlighted it. They call for a revolt against the West Bengal government in the name of students. However, the people who participated in the movement were BJP and Sangh Parivar-affiliated militants. Then, BJP and Sangh Parivar declared religious war against the West Bengal government. The situation is very critical in West Bengal. BJP and affiliated militants are doing too much violence.

Bangladeshi people’s main enemy is the BJP and their Akhand Varat strategy. The Trinamul Congress and its secular policy are beneficial for Bangladesh and the religious minority of India. So, it will not be a good decision for the Bangladeshi people to support a BJP-led movement to overthrow our friend.

Water Terrorism of India: A New Weapon to Kill Bangladeshi People

 

India is the world's most dominating imperialist nation in South Asia. This country and its rulers want to control the South Asian region and dominate all the neighboring countries. They treated all the neighboring countries as their colony. India always interferes in the internal politics of the South Asian countries. It is the country responsible for all the problems of South Asian nations. For this reason, all the neighboring countries considered India to be their enemy.

India invaded Bangladesh in January 2009 and installed a puppet government led by the Neo-fascist political party Awami League. Sheikh Hasina, the worst dictator of the 21st century, became the puppet Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The brave people of Bangladesh fought against the colonial rule of India in Bangladesh for 16 years.

India conducted a vast number of genocides in Bangladesh to suppress the people’s peaceful democratic movement. Finally, on 6 June 2024, the students of Bangladesh protested against Hasina’s authoritarian rule. Hasina tried to suppress the movement through her colonial police force and her terrorist organizations, “Awami League,” “Student’s League,” “Youth League,” and other terrorist organizations affiliated with the Awami fascist government.

But the general people stand with the protestor students. Hasina, with the backup of India, conducted a brutal genocide against the students and civilians. But they were unable to stop the movement. Then, finally, the Bangladesh Army stands with the students and civilians. A mass uprising of people finally overthrew Hasina on 5 August 2024. Bangladesh became independent for the second time. Fascist dictator Hasina then fled to her father’s land, India.

A new interim government led by the students came to power, and Dr. Mohammad Younus became the Prime Minister. Bangladeshi people started a happy, peaceful life with a new hope. But this situation was unacceptable for Imperialist India and its ruling party, BJP. They started a new conspiracy against Bangladesh.

On 21 August, they opened almost all their water gates of rivers, and nearly all the districts of Bangladesh went underwater. A vast number of people are dying every minute. India is trying to kill all the people of Bangladesh by using the flood as a weapon. Then, they will occupy our land. This is a terrorist activity that can be defined as “Water Terrorism.”

I know that the world community will remain silent on this issue. But we Bangladeshi people will defend our land from the uncultured Indians until our last breath.

Delete Social Media Apps from Your Phone and Enjoy Your Life

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I don’t have any social media apps on my phone. So, I can enjoy my free time more than I do by reading books and doing many amazing things, which is fantastic for my mental health.

Stop being a slave to your phone. Go out and walk in the green grass. Feel the essence of nature. Build strong relationships with your family, friends, relatives, and neighbours. Be grateful to Almighty Allah. Enjoy your life like a free man.