Free Follow free market economic policies and accelerate economic reforms. Give all out support and incentives to private sector. Improve efficiency and productivity of public sector enterprises so as to make them profitable.
Agriculture:
Ensure at fair prices supply of fertilizer, irrigation equipment and other inputs and credit for the peasants and provide subsidies if necessary.
Undertake land reform and land management programme and distribute 'Khas lands' among landless. Modernize fish culture, poultry livestock rearing. Extensive tree planting and afforestation for environmental balance.
Industries:
Simplification of laws relating to industrialization and creation of opportunities for uniform development of industries at district and thana level.
Modernization of textiles and priority for export oriented industries.
Expansion of small and cottage and labour intensive industries, creation of opportunities for the unemployed youths. No industrial, financial or commercial units under private ownership will be nationalized.
Trade:
Liberalization of trade and improvement in Balance of Payments.
Labour Policy:
Undertake effective new labour policy on the basis of tripartite negotiation.
Link wages with productivity.
Quick disposal of industrial disputes according to international labour conventions.
Stop child labour and provide workers with education, healthcare and better working facilities.
Education and Human resources:
Ensure proper education and develop human resources.
Establish primary schools in each thana. Provide technical and vocational training at each thana.
Modernize religious and Madrasha education system.
Women and Child Development:
Undertake appropriate policies for establishing equal rights to women in all spheres and bring women into the mainstream of development.
Accord high priority to expansion of female education. Intiative projects for improving the condition of the disadvantaged.
Health and Family Planning:
Health for all.
Extension of health care facilities to the poor and the distressed.
Appropriate steps for modernization of indigenous health care system.
Appropriate steps for effective family planning.
Poverty alleviation and Social Welfare:
Take appropriate steps for transforming poor and unemployed people into productive and self-reliant human resources.
Take appropariate steps for rehabilitation of destitutes and slum dwellers.
Physical Infrastructure:
Accord priority to infrastructural development, expansion and modernization of rails, roads, highways, telecommunications, ports.
Extension of rural electricity throughout the country in next ten years.
Development of water resources.
Exploration of oil, gas, coal and other natural resources.
Transparency and Accountability:
Ensure Law and order.
Ensure transparency and accountability of the government.
Strengthen local government bodies through decentralization of power.
Source: Bangladesh Economic Review, 1996.