বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
The Government of Bangladesh is committed to a socialist pattern of economy based on democracy and democratic values. This will involve social and economic planning on a massive scale. The entire planning will involve a three integrally connected stages-(a) immediate and short-term planning to deal with post-war problems, some of which are stated above, (b) mid-term planning on a five-years basis, and (c) a long-term perspective planning extending over a period of 20 to 25 years.
The fundamental principles of an egalitarian democracy and a socialist economy will greatly and profoundly affect the character and work of public administration. The responsibilities of the administrators will expand beyond recognition in scale, scope, volume, variety and complexity. It means that the Government will be involved in new and complicated tasks. The new responsibilities of the Government will include development of an independent economic policy, programme of industrialization on a vast scale, the problems of the nationalization of key and basic industries, social ownership of the key factors of production, technological revolution in the economy, accelerated development of agriculture to attain self-sufficiency in food, the question of the redistribution of land among the farmers and of cooperatives, increased productivity of commerce-oriented crops, sound infra-structure for economic and social development, development of power, development and exploitation of natural resources, control of the menace of flood, full employment in a free society, banishment of hunger, eradication of poverty, removal of illiteracy, expansion of education, promotion of industrial peace, a high degree of social security, a national health service, development and exploitation of water resources, transport and communication, control of capital investment, a favorable balance of trade, state trading in key sectors of exports and imports, rising standard of living for the masses, housing, town and country planning, control of population and family planning, contact with international organisation and various specialized agencies, a national minimum standard of living below which no one shall permitted to fall, finding of resources from domestic and international sources for financing the multifarious projects, increase of the per capita income and of the gross national product, and finally, the social ownership and operation of the main means of production.
We must realize that our whole future depends on our being aware of what science is and can be in the life of a nation. The role of the scientists and of scientific research and development has enormously increased. There is, finally, the supreme need of maintaining constant contact with the public.
The responsibilities of the Government in essence and a bottom are the responsibilities of the administrators because Government functions through its administrators. There is the supreme need of the developing a highly competent, honest, able and energetic administrative personnel who can take by bull by the two horns. Again, the necessary administrative organisation-ministries, departments, directorates, and subordinate offices will have to build up and re-organized. The entire provincial administrative apparatus will be absorbed into the new organisation. Administration in both the rural and urban areas districts, villages and municipalitieswill have to be re- organized arid re-structured. The whole plethora of public corporations and other autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies charged with different responsibilities will need careful re-examination and re-assessment to infuse a new life into them.
