The interim government has formed committees to run the programmes of the country鈥檚 city corporations, including of two Dhaka cities.聽
The Local Government Division issued a notice, signed by its deputy secretary Mohammad Shamsul Islam, in this regard on September 26 and uploaded it on its website on Friday.
The administrators of the city corporations will head the committees, while the chief executive officers will be the secretary and the committee members will be representatives from different government organisations.聽聽聽
The notice read, 鈥楿ntil further notice, a 鈥榗ommittee鈥� has been formed under section 25 (Ka) (2) of the 鈥楲ocal Government City Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024鈥�, to run the city corporation programmes properly.鈥�
As per the ordinance, the committee members will assist the city corporation administrators in performing their tasks and will perform the task of councillors.
The committee members will receive honorariums of no more than Tk聽5,000, with no additional financial aid or benefits.
The committee consists of 25 members for Dhaka north and south city corporations, while a 21-member committee, led by deputy commissioners, will oversee Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Barishal, Rangpur, and Mymensingh, and a 17-member committee has been formed for each of the Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Cumilla city corporations.
Mayor of city corporations and 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 they provide for city residents. Meanwhile, the government removed ward councilors of all the 12 city corporations from their positions on Thursday.
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聽on the day.
The government on the same day, in separate orders, appointed administrators to 61 district councils and all the city corporations.