
The Centre for Governance Studies is going to hold a series of dialogues at national and regional levels in the next five months.
CGS executive director Zillur Rahman announced the programme at the press conference at a city hotel on Thursday.
The centre has taken the initiative to make recommendations to the the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus for necessary reforms, he said.
The dialogues will be held in various divisional cities, including Dhaka.
Eight national dialogues will be held in Dhaka as part of national-level dialogues, said Zillur.
The topics of the dialogue include reforms of the constitution, judicial system, civil administration, constitutional offices, intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, banking sector, economic policies, foreign loans and mass media, and ensuring justice for the victims of human rights violation.
Four regional dialogues will be held in Chattogram, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna, Zillur said.
The CGS will make public summaries of the discussions and specific recommendations to be made through the dialogues and will endeavour to disseminate them through the media, he said.
The CGS believes that these dialogues will play an important role in establishing and protecting the country鈥檚 democratic future, he added.
At the press conference, Ali Riaz, a distinguished professor at Illinois State University of the United States, said that various state institutions were destroyed due to the authoritarian regime in the past 15 years.