CIPs?
MM Haque New York
The Daily Star reported on November 27 that no commercially important persons have been declared by the government for its third year. I don't see why it's necessary that we must declare people to be CIPs. The story says that lack of declaring people to be a CIP is causing frustration among exporters, traders, and entrepreneurs, and that 50 people "got that status" the last time. It adds that the Anisul Huq, President of BGMEA (who himself is identified as a CIP since 1989) says the government should declare CIP status to accommodate new faces to bring dynamism in the business community, and that CIP status is announced after approval from the Cabinet Division.I don't see any reason for that. That status should be achieved by performance and position, not by government declaration. If a person has achieved significance in business and commercial affairs, his or her contemporaries would know that the person is important. Declaring someone important doesn't make them important. Is it necessary to declare Professor Muhammad Yunus 'important'? Even if a person is considered important in Bangladesh commercial affairs that should be the result of his/her perceived importance. It should not be the result of the cabinet of a government. Doesn't the Cabinet have a more important agenda?
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