Monday, August 24, 2020

Bangladesh Media Landscape by Robert

1 Bangladesh Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide May 2012 If you wish to propose any updates or revisions to this report, if you don't mind contact Robert Powell on Robert. [emailâ protected] organization [Type text] 2 Introduction Bangladesh is a level and low-lying nation that at times experiences wrecking flowing floods and floods. It is additionally one of the most thickly populated nations on the planet. The size of human enduring brought about by a mix of high breezes, flowing floods and substantial rainstorms is here and there immense.In 2009, Cyclone Ailia caused a flowing flood that overflowed low-lying seaside zones and left around 500,000 destitute. 80% of Bangladesh comprises of flood plain. 75% of the country’s land territory is under 10 meters above ocean level. This makes Bangladesh powerless against rising ocean levels because of environmental change. Flooding brought about by streams blasting their banks is a major issue in numerous zones. Around 20 million in dividuals living in low-lying waterfront regions are in danger of being overflowed out of their homes by rising water levels and flowing surges.The capital, Dhaka, has populace of around 16 million and is perhaps the biggest city on the planet. In any case, 73% of Bangladesh’s 164 million populace despite everything lives in country regions. A large portion of the populace depends on resource cultivating. Rice is the staple yield and the country’s primary wellspring of food. Bangladesh positioned 146 out of 187 states recorded in the 2011 UN Human Development Index. As per the World Bank, 81% of the populace lives in destitution [Type text] 3 Administrative divisions of Bangladesh Source: http://www. newspecialpictures. om/class/map-2/bangladesh-map/[Type text] 4 The grown-up education rate was 56% in 2009, as indicated by UNESCO. It evaluated that 61% of men could peruse and compose, yet just 51% of ladies. Bangla or Bengali is communicated in as a first language by 9 8% of the populace. It is the official language of government Bangla is likewise spoken in the neighboring West Bengal State of India, with which Bangladesh has close social and recorded ties. Bengalis in the two nations love their language and rich culture. Writers are national saints, known to everyone.Most instructed Bangladeshis despite everything respect the city of Kolkata (once in the past known as Calcutta), over the fringe in India, as the social capital of Bengal †a district that truly incorporates West Bengal and Bangladesh. Numerous Bangladeshi families despite everything have solid connects to West Bengal, having left piece of their family there when they fled conflicts among Hindus and Muslims during the parcel of India in 1947. Notwithstanding, at a political level numerous Bangladeshis feel undecided about India. The expectations of this bigger and increasingly more impressive neighbor are broadly distrusted.Several nearby dialects are spoken in the Chittagong H ill Tracts in South-eastern Bangladesh and in the extraordinary north of the nation, where the impact of India’s neighboring Assam area is articulated. Around 300,000 individuals in the grieved Chittagong Hill Tracts speak Chakma. The principle global language spoken is English. This is an inheritance of about two centuries of British provincial principle. [Type text] 5 Bangladesh accomplished autonomy from British pilgrim rule as a feature of the Islamic province of Pakistan in 1947.The region was then known as East Pakistan, however it was genuinely isolated from the remainder of Pakistan by India. The educating of English declined following freedom from Pakistan in 1971 as Bangla was advanced for patriot reasons. In any case, English keeps on being generally utilized in government, business and the media. It is likewise broadly spoken among the informed tip top. English is presently making a rebound. Numerous Bangladeshis view familiarity with the language as indispensable for landing generously compensated positions both at home and abroad. About 90% of Bangladeshis are Sunni Muslim. A further 9% are Hindu.There are little minorities of Christians and Buddhists. Generally most Bangladeshis have characterized themselves as ‘Bengalis first and Muslims second’. Notwithstanding, Islamic fundamentalism has been on the ascent since the mid 1990s. Bangladesh split away from Pakistan after an effective outfitted uprising in 1971, which was upheld by the Indian Air Force. This is referred to in Bangladesh as the War of Liberation. Language and culture was a key factor in the freedom battle. Bangladeshi patriots supported the utilization of Bangla as an official language rather than Urdu, the official language of Pakistan.Nationalism, vote based system, secularism and communism were the four mainstays of Bangladesh’s 1972 Constitution. In any case, in 1988 Islam was made the state religion. [Type text] 6 Post-autonomy legislative issues ha ve been damaged by a harsh fight between the two principle political administrations in Bangladesh. Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the establishing father of Bangladesh, filled in as the country’s first president until his death by military officials in1975. He was the pioneer of Awami League, established in 1949. His little girl, Sheik Hasina Wajed, assumed control over the gathering administration after his death.She has been Prime Minister and pioneer of the legislature since 2009. An opponent political line was established by General Ziaur Rahman, a military legend of the 1971 rebel against Pakistan. Ziaur Rahman, who is generally known as â€Å"General Zia,† turned into the accepted military leader of Bangladesh in 1975. He assumed control following a while of shakiness activated by the murdering of Mujibur Rahman. Ziaur Rahman named some of Mujibur Rahman’s professional killers to senior government positions. This move made a crack between the groups of the two men and has harmed relations between them ever since.Ziaur Rahman expected the title of president in 1977 and controlled Bangladesh until his own death in 1981. He established the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s other fundamental political development in 1978. The gathering is currently driven by Ziaur Rahman’s widow, Khaleda Zia. She filled in as leader from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. In mid 2012, with the Awami League back in power, she was pioneer of the restriction. The individual competition and ill will between Sheik Hasina and Khaleda Zia is serious and has shaded quite a bit of Bangladeshi legislative issues in the course of the last 20 years.Both ladies are in their late 60s. [Type text] 7 Since autonomy, Bangladesh has either been managed by the Awami League, the BNP or a military-drove organization. The army’s latest intercession in legislative issues occurred in 2007. It shaped a guardian organization after the past BNP- drove government neglected to hold new races before the finish of its parliamentary order. A military-drove interval government sorted out new decisions in 2008. The Awami League scored an avalanche triumph, winning 49% of the well known vote and 263 of the 300 seats in parliament.It came back to control in mid 2009 with Sheik Hasina as Prime Minister. This was her subsequent term as head of government. She had before managed Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001. The ideological contrasts between the Awami League and the BNP are inconsequential, however the ill will between their separate chiefs is extraordinary and amazingly close to home. Sheik Hasina accuses General Zia and the BNP for being near her father’s killers, for expelling secularism from the constitution, and for restoring collaborationist powers, for example, Jamaat-e-Islami, which once in the past restricted autonomy from Pakistan.The BNP and Khaleda Zia recommend thus that Sheik Hasina and the Awami League are inadequ ately Muslim, and that they are allied with Hindu-overwhelmed India. Khaleda Zia recorded defilement bodies of evidence against Sheik Hasina and her partners while she was in power. Sheik Hasina has since fought back in kind. The following parliamentary decisions are expected in 2013. Debasement is boundless at all degrees of government in Bangladesh, particularly in the police. [Type text] 8 The nation was appraised 120 out of 183 nations recorded in Transparency International’s 2011Corruption Perception Index with a rating of 2. out of 10. Bangladesh once involved the base bar of the record, yet its exhibition has improved as of late. At regular intervals, Bangladesh experiences crushing floods, a large portion of which are activated by cyclonic tempests coming shorewards from the Bay of Bengal. Just 5% of the world’s cyclonic tempests structure in the Bay of Bengal, however these reason 85% of the death toll and property dispensed by all violent winds on the planet. In 1991, an extreme twister murdered about 140,000 Bangladeshis and made up to 10 million destitute. It sent a six-meter high tempest flood of ocean water hurrying inland.Following that debacle, universal benefactors helped Bangladesh to construct a system of tornado shields along the coast and set up an early notice framework for inhabitants in defenseless regions. Standard TV and radio announcements are given as twisters arrive at key phases of advancement in the Bay of Bengal. The administration likewise passes cautioning messages down to neighborhood government authorities. At snapshots of extraordinary risk, alarms mounted on the violent wind covers are sounded. In 2009 the legislature utilized the cell phone system to make an extra channel for disseminating twister notice messages.It started to communicate SMS violent wind cautioning messages to all cell phone proprietors living in peril zones as peril drew nearer, asking them to desperately look for security. Setbacks have b een incredibly diminished because of these precautionary measures, however ground-breaking storms keep on dispensing substantial harm [Type text] 9 Earthquakes are uncommon, yet when they do happen they can be amazingly ground-breaking. Just seven seismic tremors of more than 8. 5 extent have ever been recorded on the planet, yet two of those influenced Bangladeshâ€in 1887 and again in 1950. The nation sits with on leg on each side of three significant separation points. In September 2011 a 6. size tremor with its focal point in Sikkim toward the north shaken structures in the capital Dhaka and somewhere else for as long as two minutes. As indicated by Prof

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