The Outline Perspective Plan (OPP) 2010-2021 fulfils a long felt need of the country. In the past there were attempts to formulate Perspective Plan but without success. The eventful dawn of the twenty first century with the deepening of globalization, challenges of realizing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the threat of global warming and environmental degradation and economic meltdown of crisis proportions comparable to the great depression coupled with and yet
ever fundamentalism and terrorism threw new challenges to the world community including Bangladesh. At home, confronted with deteriorated investment climate, increased inflation,
unemployment and poverty prior to the restoration of democratic process, the question of formulation of a Perspective Plan got a noble start after the present elected government came into power.