The interim government has removed ward councilors of all the 12 city corporations from their positions with immediate effect.
The Local Government Division on Thursday issued a notification, signed by its deputy secretary Mohammad Shamsul Islam, in this regard.
The city corporations are Dhaka South, Dhaka North, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal, Narayanganj, Cumilla, Rangpur, Gazipur and Mymensingh.
Many councillors, mainly Awami League leaders, remained absent from office since a student-mass uprising overthrew the Awami League government on August 5.
The situation disrupted many essential services that ward councillors provide for city residents.
Ward councillors provide services such as inheritance certificates, birth certificates, death certificates, character certificates and citizenship certificates.
On August 19, the Local Government Division removed all the 12 city mayors, 60 district council chairs and members, 493 upazila council chairs and vice-chairs, and 323 municipal mayors. The post of one district council chair remained vacant before the government order on the day.
The government on the same day, in separate orders, appointed administrators to 61 district counclis and all the city corporations.
