Scientific or Promotional!!!

Today a scientific conferance on Promotion of Biotechnology in Bangladesh: National and International Perspective has started at Sasaka Auditorium, ICDDR,B. The official URL for the conferance is

http://www.promotebiotechbd.net/index.htm

I was going through the conference schedule and related stuffs. My first reaction was, "Actually what is the purpose of arranging this conference?"

Its not a scientific conference. Most of the papers and posters going to be presented are already published stuffs!

A conference to promote biotechnology? Neither. In fact it will do even worse if this is the purpose. Only 300 restricted participants... inside a closed auditorium... no interaction with general people.

Another thing irked me. There is a cultural function session! Doesn't make any sense. To make things even worse Shuvro Dev has been paid Tk. 50000 to perform. Waste of invaluable money and time. You don't need cultural functions in scientific conference...

Bangladesh is a weird country with strange peoples! A conference has been arranged for the sake of arranging a conference... no goal, no objective...