Upazila Parishad nexus Local Development in Bangladesh: Challenges lie in Accountability and Invention    

A strong local government system has been the core of the political process. As an essential pillar of a democratic and public service transformation, local government is where solving the problems of democratic development has to start.

Local government, therefore, should take the opportunity of devolution further on new methods of service provision, screening that the state isn’t a distant and inflexible monster, but it must do so alongside other services, local and central.