Utilization of National Resources of Bangladesh

Hakikur Rahman has raised an important issue concerning the increase of the price of natural gas in his write up in the Bytesforall. Natural gas is our national mineral resource and it is one of the best gifts of God. Not only the natural gas, there are other mineral resources like Zircon, Ilmenite, Rutile, Garnet etc. in the country. Almighty Allah has bestowed upon us huge natural resources that make others jealous. HE has given us the knowledge to utilize them in right ways.

The world is now divided into two parts; they are the haves and the have-nots. We are in the first group. We have every thing but we are not utilizing our knowledge in the right ways. We should focus our eyes in the right direction. We should know the technology to utilize our valuable resources fully for national development. There is no magic tool to make a nation rich in the twinkle of an eye. The country men need to make it happen. The best way is to utilize resources in the right and intelligent way. Any nation or country that practices the formula becomes rich and the rest who are not able to do so remain poor.

It is written in many geological survey books that a country or a nation can no longer remain poor if it has even only one mineral resource and he can utilize the resource tactfully and intelligently. We have not only one; we have several mineral resources. Still we are poor. Who is responsible for that? The answer is known to many of us. We have shut down our mouth and we have promised we will tolerate everything silently. That is the main problem and the barrier in national development.

Increasing the prices of natural (God gifted) gas is not a very difficult task. Just the concerned authority will serve a notice mentioning that the price of natural gas will be double from the morning of Sunday or Monday and we will follow the instructions like the good boys in the class room. We will never ask why we are increasing the prices of the God gifted resource. Is it justified? Can't we control the misuse of gas as mentioned by Hakikur Rahman? Which one is important? – to stop misuse or to increase prices?  The answer is -- the one that is comfortable and related to exercise of power. This type of practice is going on from long time. Like many developing countries, the Government also changes here and the new faces come in power but the system remains the same.

This is the time to realize that the global citizens are moving in the speed of light. We are the citizens of an independent country that we won in 1971 through a historic liberation movement. We have a glorious history of liberation, we have unlimited natural including mineral resources and we have very talented human resources. We are capable enough to utilize our own resources. Some of our respected scientists have recently given the proof of my statement through a joint and collaborative research on our natural resource jute which is known as the golden fiber of Bangladesh. Time has come to utilize our brain in right direction in right purposes. Thanks everybody for giving their valuable time.