Academic Research

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Union Parishad is the oldest local government institution in our country. Considering the effectiveness of the standing committees the objectives of this study are to examine the scope, formation, function and performance of standing committees and to assess the involvement of female members in the standing committees. The study was conducted in 5 union parishad standing committees. Findings of the study indicate that thought standing committees. Have a high potentiality of ensuring transparency and accountability of union parishad, involving cross section of people in decision Making process, encouraging female members to perform important responsibilities at the local and the sluggish performance of standing committees such as lack of pressure of from the common people, lack of political pressure, lack of development programmes at local level, unwillingness on the part of union parishad chairman to delegate authority and even non-existence of standing committees or existence only on paper.

Key Words: Upazila Parishad, Standing Committee, Act, Ordinance etc. More read

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The paper has evaluated the election governance in Bangladesh. The paper is a descriptive and qualitative in nature and mainly based on secondary literature. For doing this study, conceptual clarification has been done first. Bangladesh since its independence has gone through several changes in its electoral systems as it started as a parliamentary form of government, then switched over to presidential system and again shifted back to parliamentary system in 1991. After independence, there have been 11 national elections under different electoral systems and democracy has been under continuous threat from changing patterns of the elections. Bangladesh election commission is the main authority to govern election system in our country. Then, in order to understand election governance process, Bangladeshi elections has been evaluated by analyzing all the national elections held since independence. Apart from these, major factors and challenges of holding a free, fair and credible election in Bangladesh have been examined. The meaning of “election governance” is often equated with “electoral administration”. electoral governance is conceived as merely a mechanism for establishing regulatory bodies and rules. Our prime goal is to show readers that electoral governance is a process that starts with the enactment of legislation, continues with administrative enforcement and judicial response, and concludes when the process returns to the beginning, either through judicial interpretation or recommendation by a legislative body.Read more

Keywords: Election, governance, democracy, electoral governance, election commission.