Members of Parliament in Bangladesh have taken on development roles that should belong to local governments due to the weakness of local institutions. This has blurred the lines of responsibility between national and local elected officials. It has also contributed to corruption among MPs by giving them control over development funds without oversight. Restricting MPs' authority over local initiatives is a step in the right direction, but for truly empowered local governments, peoples' representatives need oversight authority at every level of government, including over local civil servants.
PRS Legislative Research (PRS) seeks to strengthen the legislative process by making it better informed, more
transparent and participatory. It achieves its mission by providing independent and non-partisan research support to law makers across party lines, tracking the function of legislatures and engaging citizens in the policy making process.
The services of local government legislators and customary court judges are often associated with
self-abnegation. However, most of these officials use their positions as money making ventures and material and
financial considerations have been the principal catalyst in the quest for such offices. It is because of these
recurrent occurrences in developing countries in general and Cameroon in particular that the study revisits the
situation in West Cameroon. It contends that most of these officials used their offices in amassing wealth as the
quest for increases in allowances and privileges became the common characteristic. Where these perceived
gains were not forthcoming, legislators and judges resorted to corrupt practices and their decisions/judgements
were often based on material and financial considerations. When some of them found it difficult to raise money
from services offered to their constituents, they simply abandoned their duties for personal businesses or juicy
opportunities elsewhere. The study concludes that legislation which warrants only selfless and dedicated
individuals to seek for these positions is needed. Again, it holds that local communities should be empowered to
sanction recalcitrant officials with little or no interference from central authorities. In this way, the engaging of
unpatriotic citizens in the management local government affairs will be checked.
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organs of the government of bangladesh
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government: concept
,
legislature of bangladesh
,
limitations of the executive organ in bd
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judiciary organ of bangladesh
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functions of judicial organ of bangladesh
,
functions of executive organ of bangladesh
,
how to make judiciary more effective in bangladesh
PRS Legislative Research (PRS) seeks to strengthen the legislative process by making it better informed, more
transparent and participatory. It achieves its mission by providing independent and non-partisan research support to law makers across party lines, tracking the function of legislatures and engaging citizens in the policy making process.
The services of local government legislators and customary court judges are often associated with
self-abnegation. However, most of these officials use their positions as money making ventures and material and
financial considerations have been the principal catalyst in the quest for such offices. It is because of these
recurrent occurrences in developing countries in general and Cameroon in particular that the study revisits the
situation in West Cameroon. It contends that most of these officials used their offices in amassing wealth as the
quest for increases in allowances and privileges became the common characteristic. Where these perceived
gains were not forthcoming, legislators and judges resorted to corrupt practices and their decisions/judgements
were often based on material and financial considerations. When some of them found it difficult to raise money
from services offered to their constituents, they simply abandoned their duties for personal businesses or juicy
opportunities elsewhere. The study concludes that legislation which warrants only selfless and dedicated
individuals to seek for these positions is needed. Again, it holds that local communities should be empowered to
sanction recalcitrant officials with little or no interference from central authorities. In this way, the engaging of
unpatriotic citizens in the management local government affairs will be checked.
RULE OF LAW IN MYANMAR AND CURRENT SITUATION 2018MYO AUNG Myanmar
RULE OF LAW IN MYANMAR AND CURRENT SITUATION
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/union-attorney-general-revokes-courts-decision-drop-investigation-comedians-killing.html
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/court-bans-media-taking-photos-military-officers-wife.html
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/high-profile-arms-case-handed-naypyitaw-court.html
High-Profile Arms Case Handed over To Naypyitaw Court
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-court-hear-arguments-charging-jailed-reuters-reporters.html
Myanmar Court to Hear Arguments on Charging Jailed Reuters Reporters
,
organs of the government of bangladesh
,
government: concept
,
legislature of bangladesh
,
limitations of the executive organ in bd
,
judiciary organ of bangladesh
,
functions of judicial organ of bangladesh
,
functions of executive organ of bangladesh
,
how to make judiciary more effective in bangladesh
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1. People’s reps should get oversight
authority at every tier
We do believe that the primary responsibility of the members of parliament should be to enact, modify
or repeal laws, as and when necessary, besides their active involvement in policymaking. However,
since local government institutions remain weak and often dependent on the lawmakers’ whims and
wishes in Bangladesh, as in most developing countries, the members of parliament have come to play
significant roles in the development activities in their respective constituencies. Moreover, the role of
the local government functionaries and the lawmakers has never been clearly demarcated in
Bangladesh, thanks to the failure of successive governments to address the issue decisively. The
authoritarian mindset of the lawmakers has also been responsible to a great extent. Consequently, the
distinction of roles between the elected local government functionaries and the members of parliament
has blurred to a point when the parliamentarians have become the main actors as far as development in
their respective constituencies is concerned.
Their increased involvement in the affairs of their constituencies, which should have been ideally left
to the local government, is also one of the causes that such a high number of lawmakers are currently
being charged with financial corruption. The authority to disburse funds for development and public
works has added to the lawmakers’ incentive to spend heavily on election campaigns because with
election to the parliament comes the opportunity to acquire large allocations of development funds,
which are typically vulnerable to mismanagement and misappropriation due to the lack of monitoring
at the central or local level.
As such, the current initiative to restrict the lawmakers to their functions in the parliament stripping
away their authority over initiatives that should be conducted solely by the local government
institutions is a move in the right direction. But the formation of an inter-ministerial body to make
recommendations was unnecessary since a commission on local government during the last Awami
League regime had submitted a report recommending public representation in four tiers of the
government fully explaining their roles and responsibilities, functions and jurisdictions. Also, such an
arrangement is clearly defined in the constitution.
As we have stated before, we do desire a genuinely empowered local government structure that
would be effective and meaningful for the people. But in order for that to happen, the elected public
representatives must be given the authority to assess the performance of the civil servant heading the
corresponding administrative unit. In other words, the public representatives must have the necessary
authority and mechanism to command the obedience of the public servants.