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The background of the upazila administration

The idea of ​​taking the administration to the doorstep of the rural people is not new to Bangladesh. It is said in a government report that the administrative problems of Bangladesh are of administration, not of much administration.

This thought has not been effective for a long time due to the lack of colonial mind mentality and the lack of appropriate officials. And it can be said that the development administration district of Bangladesh had stopped till the great surge of power. There was no local government institution in the thana or any development activities. Some of the officers who were in their work were covered in law and order and tax collection. In 1959, there was a change in the system under the basic democracies order. A local government organization was founded on the other hand, but the main role was to coordinate the activities of the Union Parishad. Dr. Akhtar Hamid Khan, founder of the Rural Development Academy, Bangladesh in Comilla, proposed the formation of training and development center (T, T, D.C). Overall, the thana was identified as the center of development. According to that, the Thana Training Development Center (T, T, DC) was formed in every police station in the '60s and' 70s and efforts were made to form a Thana secretariat by recruiting officers of various national postal department. But despite this, there are many weaknesses at this stage:

1. The Thana Parishad (or Thana Kaushin) was controlled by the official official and there was no source of income for the same and its work was limited to coordinating the development activities of the Union Parishad.


2. It was not possible to send enough officials to the police station and the officers who were in the police station were mostly inefficient and low level.


3. At the level of the Thana Parishad, the amount of government aid was inadequate and instead of local authority on its use, the district / sub divisional officers prevailed. As a result, the benefits of development could not be reached to the villagers in the past. In this background, in 1982, the government lost the colonial British government and reformed the people and reformed the people in a systematic and coherent reform. Among other reforms, administrative decentralization has earned recognition as a breakthrough step. In this administrative decentralization process, the former thanas of the thana changed the parishads and converted them to the upazila. These upazilas are the centers of development. Since then, all development initiatives are being revolted around the upazila. Already the upazila administration has been arranged and the power to decide on all development issues has been given to the upazila.