পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৮০

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড industries in the state sector and eliminating the hold of the monopolists over the economy. To encourage capitalists, particularly owners of small capital to build up industries in the fields other than the state sector and to offer them favorable opportunities. To establish trade relations on equal terms with ail countries irrespective of social systems and to expand economic and trade relations with socialist countries. To establish closer trade relations with the neighboring countries, particularly with India. (10) (a). To carry out urgent and necessary reforms in the sphere of land system. To fix the ceiling of land holding at 100 bigha (slightly more than 33 acres) per family and to distribute the excess land freely among the poor and landless peasants on the basis of their requirement. To pay adequate compensation to the landlords whose lands will have been acquired by the government. To distribute government land freely among the landless and poor peasants. (b)To exempt the owners of upto 25 bighas of land from ground rent. To eliminate the system of rent collection gradually and introduce income tax in proportion to total income earned from sale of crops produced in the land. (c) To ensure just price for jute and other cash crops. (d)To ensure fair wage for agricultural laborers. (e) To encourage peasants to adopt co-operative farming; to extend state help to the peasants in the form of modern agricultural implements, fertiliser, ow-interest agricultural loan, etc. (11)To take up flood control, dispelling tidal bore and arrangement of irrigation as urgent tasks at the state lavel and to adopt necessary measures for their implementation. (12)To introduce universal and free education; to arrange for higher education at low cost; to establish large number of schools, research laboratories, medical, agricultural and technical institutes; to radically reform the education system and arrange for imparting secular education by modern scientific method. To arrange for imparting education through the medium of Bengali at all levels of education in Bangladesh and to extend all possible help from th” state for the development of the Bengali language. For the Urdu-speaking residents of Bangladesh, to ensure the right to receive education in their mother tongue and build up their own cultural life. (13)To attach due importance to the development of people's education and culture and the public health system and to make increased expenditure from the state on these accounts; to make medical facilities easily available to the people. (14)To ensure the workers a minimum wage for maintenance of life, job-security, a maximum of 8 hours working day, future security as well as all trade union rights, including right to strike and collective bargaining. To arrange for their housing, leave, education and medical facilities for family members, cultural performance, sports, etc.