Despite being at the centre of the establishment, Dr Akbar Ali Khan was always an outspoken and objective person, speakers at a webinar said yesterday.
Names to be recommended by the search committee for appointments of the chief election commissioner and other commissioners should be made public for ensuring transparency in the process, eminent citizens told a webinar yesterday.
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in economy and social development in the last 50 years but failed to institutionalise democracy, improve governance and protect the environment, said eminent scholars.
“We want to discuss not simply our achievements, we also want to note our shortfalls and mistakes so that we can learn lessons from them for course correction in the future”
A four-day international conference is set to start today to reflect Bangladesh’s 50-year journey in economy, politics, society and culture since gaining independence in 1971.