[FutureOfBangladesh] Re: An afternoon with Dr. Nurul Islam

Dear respected Dr. Abdul Mannan Sir,

I have gone through your nice and informative (linked) article.

I am also a very good fan of respected Dr. Nurul Islam, Vice Chairman of 1st Planning Commission of Bangladesh.

I was more impressed by writing of Dr. Nurul Islam and came to know a lot of rare and important facts by reading his few episode on Bangabndhu (SRITIPOTE  BANGABANDHU) published in the Daily Prothom Alo of mid August (9th to 15th), 2004.

But I want to make a little comments, based on my experience, on your following statement in that article:

"বাংলাদেশে কোনো নিত্যপ্রয়োজনীয় পণ্যের মূল্য পার্শ্ববর্তী দেশ ভারতের চেয়ে কম রাখলে সেই পণ্য ভারতে পাচার হয়ে যাবে। অন্য পণ্যের কথা না হয় বুঝলাম কিন্তু তেল কীভাবে আমাদের সীমান্তের অতন্দ্র প্রহরীদের ফাঁকি দিয়ে পাচার হবে, তা বুঝতে অনেকেই অক্ষম। "

I regularly find in the newspaper of the Oman that Omani police regularly seizes drums filled with Diesel, which were intended to be smuggled in Dubai or UAE. It used to surprise me too!

Though both UAE and Oman are oil producing country, but there is about 10% to 15 % price difference in Diesel. 

So, those smuggling happens by many ways, in spite of  Omani's better financial condition than the Bangalee-Indians in the border of Bangladesh-India.

I think smuggling follows the rule of gravity or hydraulics. It will flow high to low!

Please do not take it otherwise and ignore it, if my observation is not correct!

"Sustha thakon, nirapade thakon ebong valo thakon"

Shuvechhante,

Engr. Shafiqur Rahman Anu,
Auckland,
New Zealand

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com> wrote:

Link to my column in the Daily Prothom Alo. It is on a discussion meet with Dr. Nurul Islam.

Have a nice day.

Mannan



http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-11-21/news/202418

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