{"id":971,"date":"2026-03-15T03:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=971"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:01:50","slug":"why-the-government-must-prioritise-rti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Why the government must prioritise RTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/author\/shamsul-bari\">Shamsul Bari<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/author\/ruhi-naz\">Ruhi Naz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the first cabinet meeting of the new BNP government on February 18, a 180-day priority<br \/>\nplan was announced focusing on controlling commodity prices, maintaining law and order,<br \/>\nstabilising supply chains, and ensuring uninterrupted gas and electricity supply. Given the<br \/>\ndifficult inheritance from the interim administration, setting these priorities was expected as they<br \/>\naddressed the immediate anxieties of ordinary households and the basic conditions for economic<br \/>\nstability.<br \/>\nHowever, if the government truly intends to deliver on these commitments, and sustain public<br \/>\nconfidence while doing so, it must tackle a less visible but more decisive requirement: a<br \/>\ngovernance system that is transparent, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Without that<br \/>\nfoundation, even well-designed welfare programmes can be weakened by information gaps,<br \/>\nweak monitoring, and administrative inertia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/March-15-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15, 2026 By\u00a0Shamsul Bari\u00a0and\u00a0Ruhi Naz After the first cabinet meeting of the new BNP government on February 18, a 180-day priority plan was announced focusing on controlling commodity prices, maintaining law and order, stabilising supply chains, and ensuring uninterrupted gas and electricity supply. Given the difficult inheritance from the interim administration, setting these priorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rti-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}