Function Of Local Level Institutions In Rural Areas Of Bangladesh

FUNCTION OF LOCAL LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN RURAL AREAS OF BANGLADESH: Union Parishad: Under the Local Government (Union Parishad) (Amendment) Act, 1993 a union is divided into nine wards. Each UP consists of a Chairman and nine member’s one from each ward. In addition three seats have been reserved for women members, who are to be elected by the UP Chairman and members in a manner prescribed by the government. But not more than one woman member is to be elected from a ward. The main task of the UP is to look over and manage the overall development activities of the union. It does the small infrastructure development and relief works as well. Function of Jalma Union Parishad:  Road development, Sanitation, Tube well, Irrigation system, Embankment for development.  Mosque, temple, clubs, grave repairing.  Under the VGD programme, to help the poor people.  Monitoring the road developing work of LGED.  MONITERING THE IRRRIGATION WORK UNDER WDB  The proper uses of local resource Present function In the Year of 2003-2004, they made 2 to 2.5km roads in their own money. In the Year of 2003-2004, they prepared about tk10 to tk12lakh earthworks under ADP Now a year they have given food 190persons under VGD card holder. They supply the products of educational instrument with the help of ADP Stange Union parishod is the only one administrative structure in rural area. No development activities cannot be done without the help of un Weakness They can’t do many development works for the lack of money. Sometimes they cant do development work for political problem. Public departments Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) Agriculture Department Water Development Board Polli Biddutt Education Department

Major activities Infrastructure development Water and sanitation Agriculture development and Irrigation Irrigation facilities Rural electrification Primary education

Health Department

Health and family planning

LGED Function: Road, kalvat, bridge, internal roads, link road development in the jalma union. LGED implementation work on Jalma union in 2004: Index Road New buildup road

Name of the Project

Repairing Road

The reconstruction of roads of sachivunia-krishnonagar poultry firm

Horintana kute bridze link road Mohummod nagor madrisha road

Krishononogor-sachivunia link road curpating Horintana kute bridze poad repareing KU internal link road Gollamari-boira road :490 m repareing School building reconstruction Dr. Aabdul jabber Reg.non-govt primary school Reconstraction Mohommed nagor Reg.non-govt primary school Reconstraction Bridze and culvate Build 6058 m culvat on sachivunia-krishnonagar link road Build up 5 m long foot bridze in the near of horintina jomamosque Dranage system Build drain near Mohommed Nagor hazrot-e-omor madrisha Build R.C.c pipe drain near the gollamari kacha bazer Mirth work

Mirth work on Jalma U.P office-tatulia hat shorak Mirth work on beside KU

Sources: Report LGED 2005.

LGED proposed work on Jalma union in 2005:

Index

Name of the project

Bridze and culvat

Chakerakhali manod sabeloy-soyghoria box culvat construction Songhoria jeten babu ghat bridge consttuction

Road Construction Gollamari bazer-boira B.C road construction Kathakhali-A.K.M.fazrul bari primary school road construction Gollamari=horintana-putimari road Road conustraction on sarnali abashike peoject in mohmmed nagor

Sources: LGED, 2005. Strength: Weakness: They have no master plan or five year plan for implementation programme. They can’t do many development works for the lack of money. Sometimes they can’t do development work for political problem. They always looking for how more people can get profit through their construction work. So, they are not making those roads where population density is too low. Some time they ended there work after finished for lacking of work. In sachebolia they ended their work after finished half of the work.

Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) Safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation system is one of the prime need in human life. DPHE work to insure this facility to the rural area. Function of DPHE in Jalma union: To insure the tube well facilities in every household. To insure the sanitation facilities in every household. To insure the pure water. In the year 2004 they gave 410 tubes well in Jalma union. They give tube well into the exchange of just 4500 taka. They coverage about 60%of the tube well facilities. In this year they give 2 tubes well in Jalma union. There new project in hand is give the sanitary latrine facility in Jalma union.

Name of Locality

Jalma union

Source of drinking water Deep tube well 250

Toilet facilities

Shallow Tube well

Sanitary

144

2427

Source: Field report Department of Public Health Engineering. Strength: In rural section they gave the sanitation and tube well facility. They taken the fund from ADB ,UNISIF, WHO and government fund.