Speakers pressed the need for forging a social movement against corruption to build a poverty-free Bangladesh at a participatory discussion, which was held to mark the Corruption Resistance Day-2013 yesterday.
They viewed that community participation towards the anti-corruption campaign had become an urgent need for building mass-opinion against corruption.
District Anti-Corruption Committee and Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) jointly organised the discussion at the Public Library conference centre in Rajshahi.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Helaluddin Ahmed addressed the discussion as chief guest with committee President Advocate Mohsin Khan in the chair.
Former chair of Rajshahi Education Board Prof Nurul Alam was the keynote speaker while Deputy Director of ACC Monzur Murshed, Poet Prof Ruhul Amin Pramanik and banker Ariful Haque Kumar spoke as panel discussants.
The speakers viewed that wide participation of community people in the service sector could curb corruption. They underlined the need for enhancing empowerment of the community people so that they could raise their voices against any sort of corruption or monopoly.
They laid stress on making both the government and non-government service-delivery activities transparent and accountable for freeing those from corruption.
Local level corruption could be greatly reduced through ensuring transparency, accountability and responsive administration together with free flow of information, they added.
Earlier, the ACC officials, staff and committee members formed a human chain at the Alupatty intersection to create mass-awareness against corruption.