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http://thedailystar.net/2005/06/19/d5061901022.htm
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It’s a Govt. plan… they want to use Ershad in their party… but Ershad and Mosharraf are rivals…
this is not a cause... all the MPs are riding more expensive cars with the black money and that LX470 was just a gift… so that’s not a cause…
this is not a cause... all the MPs are riding more expensive cars with the black money and that LX470 was just a gift… so that’s not a cause…
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This will never end… it seems we will have to live like this… you guyz should feel happy to stay abroad…arnab wrote:shame for the way things are turning up... :(
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Well I read that Mosharref and BNP were in disagreement about something 2 moths befoe this incident. PM pressured him to resign and stupid media concocted some story about Lexus jeeps.
Its not a crime to get something as a gift in my opinion. But the real problem was disagreements with the main party.
Its not a crime to get something as a gift in my opinion. But the real problem was disagreements with the main party.
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Project cars offered to speed up file clearance
LGED provides most luxury vehicles
Rafiq Hasan
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is one of the major sources of luxury vehicles for the high officials of different ministries and the department offers them cars for quick clearance of files, sources alleged.
The LGED provides scores of vehicles, including highly expensive sports utility vehicles (SUV) bought for development projects, for the ministry high-ups.
The cars are used mostly by secretaries and joint secretaries of the ministries. A number of state ministers, deputy ministers and high officials at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) also use the vehicles, the source said.
The LGED provides the cars for the high-ups in the ministries of LGRD, establishment, planning and finance, mainly to get their files cleared quickly, according to sources.
Asked, Shahidul Hassan, chief engineer of LGED, admitted the fact. "But we do not provide car for those organisations [or ministries] where we do not have any work," he told The Daily Star last night over telephone.
He believes there is no harm in providing the ministries with project cars as the vehicles are used for the government activities. Hassan observed the matter should not be seen negatively because it has become a necessity.
According to sources, the number of cars under the LGED will be around 500.
The chief engineer, however, could not say how many cars are there under the LGED.
He claimed that 10 to 15 new cars are bought every year for development projects.
The government has stopped buying such cars from its own resources following negative propaganda about the use of these vehicles, Shahidul said. "Now we buy cars only on request from the donor agencies," he added.
The LGED bears the cost of fuel and pays the drivers of the vehicles. The drivers say the officials use the cars beyond official works.
"Sometimes we work until midnight driving for those officials and their families," said an LGED driver.
At the secretariat yesterday, this correspondent found six drivers hanging the LGED identity cards around their necks waiting in front of the LGRD ministry. They said the high officials of the ministry use the vehicles.
One driver who drive the car of a deputy secretary told The Daily Star that more than 20 LGED cars are being used by the LGRD ministry officials. "We work for LGED, but the service is handed over to the deputy secretary in the ministry," he said.
However, the rush of such luxury vehicles in the secretariat reduced following resignation of the state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain in a car scandal. Many officials now refrain from bringing such cars to the secretariat.
The parking space and the road in front of the LGED head office in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar always remain blocked with latest model luxury cars.
The officials also use the project cars for sending their children to schools in the morning and for shopping in the evening, the drivers said.
Sources said the use of official cars was prohibited after office hours during the Ershad regime. But the restriction was withdrawn following pressure from the bureaucrats.
Most of the cars used by the high officials are brought from donor-funded projects. Some of those cars were given them on completion of the projects while some others were requisitioned from the under-implementation projects.
State Minister for Local Government Ziaul Haque Zia and a number of joint secretaries and deputy secretaries at the ministry use the LGED cars, the sources said.
A high official in the LGRD ministry admitted that the ministry officials use the LGED cars. "It is an open secret," he said, requesting anonymity. "There is a competition among the officials to get better cars from the LGED."
Besides, the officials also use cars from other departments, organisations and projects under the ministry such as Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Department of Public Health Engineering, Dhaka Wasa and arsenic mitigation project.
The LGRD ministry official said the random use of project cars by the ministry high officials began when the present government formed a 60-member jumbo cabinet in 2001, creating a huge demand for public vehicles.
The government transport pool failed to provide cars for so many ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers, and officials who are entitled to get government car, he said.
The official said the transport pool asked the officials to collect cars from the departments under the ministries concerned. Taking the advantage, the officials began to collect luxury cars from the departments and projects under their command.
Some of the officials use even more than one car, he said. But he noted that additional cars are necessary for conducting day-to-day work of the ministries.
"How can we work without a car because we have to go outside the secretariat several times in a single day," he said.
He said sometimes ministers visit their home districts with many people including journalists and they have to take project cars for the purpose.
According to sources, a deputy minister who was earlier in the LGRD ministry was provided with a luxury car from the LGED. He however handed over the car very recently after using it for over two years.
Asked about the cars parked in front of the LGED head office, Shahidul Hassan said all of those do not belong to the department. "Many of those belong to the officials of donor agencies who work with us," he added.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/21/d5062101022.htm
LGED provides most luxury vehicles
Rafiq Hasan
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is one of the major sources of luxury vehicles for the high officials of different ministries and the department offers them cars for quick clearance of files, sources alleged.
The LGED provides scores of vehicles, including highly expensive sports utility vehicles (SUV) bought for development projects, for the ministry high-ups.
The cars are used mostly by secretaries and joint secretaries of the ministries. A number of state ministers, deputy ministers and high officials at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) also use the vehicles, the source said.
The LGED provides the cars for the high-ups in the ministries of LGRD, establishment, planning and finance, mainly to get their files cleared quickly, according to sources.
Asked, Shahidul Hassan, chief engineer of LGED, admitted the fact. "But we do not provide car for those organisations [or ministries] where we do not have any work," he told The Daily Star last night over telephone.
He believes there is no harm in providing the ministries with project cars as the vehicles are used for the government activities. Hassan observed the matter should not be seen negatively because it has become a necessity.
According to sources, the number of cars under the LGED will be around 500.
The chief engineer, however, could not say how many cars are there under the LGED.
He claimed that 10 to 15 new cars are bought every year for development projects.
The government has stopped buying such cars from its own resources following negative propaganda about the use of these vehicles, Shahidul said. "Now we buy cars only on request from the donor agencies," he added.
The LGED bears the cost of fuel and pays the drivers of the vehicles. The drivers say the officials use the cars beyond official works.
"Sometimes we work until midnight driving for those officials and their families," said an LGED driver.
At the secretariat yesterday, this correspondent found six drivers hanging the LGED identity cards around their necks waiting in front of the LGRD ministry. They said the high officials of the ministry use the vehicles.
One driver who drive the car of a deputy secretary told The Daily Star that more than 20 LGED cars are being used by the LGRD ministry officials. "We work for LGED, but the service is handed over to the deputy secretary in the ministry," he said.
However, the rush of such luxury vehicles in the secretariat reduced following resignation of the state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain in a car scandal. Many officials now refrain from bringing such cars to the secretariat.
The parking space and the road in front of the LGED head office in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar always remain blocked with latest model luxury cars.
The officials also use the project cars for sending their children to schools in the morning and for shopping in the evening, the drivers said.
Sources said the use of official cars was prohibited after office hours during the Ershad regime. But the restriction was withdrawn following pressure from the bureaucrats.
Most of the cars used by the high officials are brought from donor-funded projects. Some of those cars were given them on completion of the projects while some others were requisitioned from the under-implementation projects.
State Minister for Local Government Ziaul Haque Zia and a number of joint secretaries and deputy secretaries at the ministry use the LGED cars, the sources said.
A high official in the LGRD ministry admitted that the ministry officials use the LGED cars. "It is an open secret," he said, requesting anonymity. "There is a competition among the officials to get better cars from the LGED."
Besides, the officials also use cars from other departments, organisations and projects under the ministry such as Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Department of Public Health Engineering, Dhaka Wasa and arsenic mitigation project.
The LGRD ministry official said the random use of project cars by the ministry high officials began when the present government formed a 60-member jumbo cabinet in 2001, creating a huge demand for public vehicles.
The government transport pool failed to provide cars for so many ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers, and officials who are entitled to get government car, he said.
The official said the transport pool asked the officials to collect cars from the departments under the ministries concerned. Taking the advantage, the officials began to collect luxury cars from the departments and projects under their command.
Some of the officials use even more than one car, he said. But he noted that additional cars are necessary for conducting day-to-day work of the ministries.
"How can we work without a car because we have to go outside the secretariat several times in a single day," he said.
He said sometimes ministers visit their home districts with many people including journalists and they have to take project cars for the purpose.
According to sources, a deputy minister who was earlier in the LGRD ministry was provided with a luxury car from the LGED. He however handed over the car very recently after using it for over two years.
Asked about the cars parked in front of the LGED head office, Shahidul Hassan said all of those do not belong to the department. "Many of those belong to the officials of donor agencies who work with us," he added.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/21/d5062101022.htm
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I think we should stop talking the political matters in our forum… just forget it… we are car freaks… not the politicians… and our discuss will do nothing to the BD politics…
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91' Toyota Corolla DX EE96 Touring
98' Modified Honda Civic V-Tec EX Coupe
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