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Good news----solar power assembly plant is being established in Bangladesh (news item). It is a Western high-tech industry, and there is an apprehension that the rich industrialised countries are rather reluctant to pass on the technology secrets to the third world----for obvious reasons.

Now that capitalism is on the decline in the West, there is a tendency to relocate the factories in the countries where the labour and operational costs are cheaper. Even China today is relocating the shoe and garment factories to Bangladesh.

Solar renewable electricity is badly needed in the developing countries in all the five continents. The production in Bangladesh could be exportable ---- The UN agencies have to create the congenial environment for global trading.

Some mountainous countries in the Saarc region have the potential to produce hydro-electricity for use by the neighbouring countries: but connectivity is a taboo issue in this region. Some experts suspect it is the due to the attitude of the Big Brother India. The artificial partition of British India in 1947 had a lingering disastrous effect on the region's economic development. The present political leadership seems to be incapable of solving this urgent issue due to political instability and lack of national consensus in their own countries.

In a deltaic region, the state of the economy depends on the farmers looking after the rich soils, surrounded by natural waters. But they have no social status in Bangladesh (as also the women workers). Urban migration has become a trend (Dhaka city is dying slowly but surely). Decentralisation is the need of the hour; but the dynasty rules are hampering it.

We get the government we deserve (support). A change in the mindset is required (not depending on the microphones and loudspeaker). But the majority of the voters have no sustaining power. The rich are acting like dictators (why the plying of cycle rickshaws is discouraged in the capital city?).

Democracy is on paper only. Is it visible on the roads and footpaths?