PM orders to arrange DCC elections
PM orders to arrange DCC elections
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam to take necessary measures to hold elections to the bifurcated Dhaka city corporation (DCC) in a bid to end public sufferings.
The premier came up with direction while chairing the weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat.
She admitted that the city dwellers are facing various sufferings due to lack of proper services by the city corporations.
In November 2011, the government split the DCC into two by amending the relevant law.
The government then appointed administrators to run the two city corporations.
Polls to the undivided DCC were held in April 2002 and tenure of the mayor and councillors expired in May 2007.
In such a situation, the then mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and the councillors continued to hold office till the DCC was split.