Dhaka, July 20 -- Planning Adviser Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday criticised the general belief that reform commissions will do some magic and resolve all of the country's problems, saying such thinking is wrong.

"We have a conception that reform commissions are like a magic, forming reform commissions means all problems are solved which is a very wrong conception," he said while addressing a kick-off workshop on protection of forest-dependent people from forest destruction, plantation economy, climate change and land grab at CIRDAP auditorium.

The event was organised by the Society for Environment and Human Development (SHED), with Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) Executive Chairman Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman presiding over...