Former director general of the National Museum of Science and Technology, Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, said that institutions, including the DPDC should be freed from the unwanted and unfair interference of the ministry, and companies should be saved from bureaucratic ‘unethical’ interference.
‘Institutions should be saved from the colonial attitudes of bureaucrats. This is how state management should be reformed. Every institution should be allowed to run with its own laws and identity, if there is any irregularity then the ministry will intervene,’ he said while addressing a session of the Dhaka Power Distribution Company’s engineers at its training academy in the capital on Wednesday.
‘To prevent electricity theft and wastage, the revenue of the organisation should be increased by carrying out regular task force operations with honest and efficient engineers,’ mentioned Munir Chowdhury.
Mentioning that board meeting fees of power generation and distribution companies are very high, which is a waste of money, he said that board meeting honorarium and entertainment expenses must be reduced, and the money wasted in the name of decorating the offices of the officers should be saved and used for hospitals and welfare purposes.
He said that ministry officials’ using company vehicles except on strictly essential official duties was highly unethical.
He also said that he had taken a strong stand against these injustices during his tenure at DPDC, including its former chairman Ahmad Kaikaus’ illegal pre-shipment visit to the US, said a press release.
