DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 7 (BSS): Independent Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury observed that in the country institutional corruption stemmed out because many civil servants especially some public office heads worked devoid of any accountability and transparency.

"Some officials do not maintain minimum transparency in rendering their duties while there is no accountability in implementing most of the development projects," he told BSS in an
exclusive interview at his office.

The Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman was talking to the national news agency marking one-year of the fresh journey of the commission after it's reconstitution immediately after the taking over of the present caretaker government.

Hasan Mashhud said, the commission is trying to identify the anomalies in public sector bodies where engineers, contractors and political influential persons devour most of the allocations.

The commission is talking to some contractors, honest engineers and officials to this end, he said adding, on the basis of their information steps would be taken against systemic
corruption in the country.

Hasan Mashhud said, the commission is trying to see this problem in a different way, as there has more or less precise rules in every organization to check the corruption. So, the responsibility of controlling corruption in an organization bestows on its authority.

"I think the anomalies begin from Annual Development Programme (ADP) when a two to three times overestimated project is submitted and a large portion of the amount of the project is
misappropriated," he regretted with reference to some development projects in his home district.

@ The Bangladesh Journal

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