Cause of failure of Government Efforts

Q. Why government efforts could not bring substantial upliftment of rural poor in Bangladesh?

Functions of Local government institutions are vast but they have some limitations as for fund and other legal work they are heavily dependent on central government. Limitations of local government institutions are given below:

• Loyal support can not get in the case of little problems.
  
• Dependent to the government for development.
  
• There is no appropriate law in collecting taxes.
  
• Lack of investment for improving infrastructure.
  
• They can not do many development works for the lack of money.
  
• Some times they can not do development work for political problem.
  
• They have no future plan for work. When they get the money, then they can not use the money for their working purpose.
  
• There were a number of government agencies for service delivery at various tiers of local government (district, upazila and union) but, in the absence of effective "clientele" organizations, the delivery structure had remained somewhat inaccessible and inefficient. In particular, this system does not reach the poor and the disadvantaged in all cases.
  
• No effective mechanism could be developed for co-operation and co-ordination at various tiers of administration (District, Upzila and Union). The need for effective co-ordination increased overtime in response to the expansion of development activities in the rural areas.
  

These were the reasons for which efforts of rural development could not bring substantial upliftment.