Law soon to ensure elected dist councils
Says LGRD minister
The government will enact and amend necessary laws during its tenure, to ensure that zilla parishads [district councils] are run by elected representatives, LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said yesterday.
Ashraful, also the general secretary of Awami League, said “We don't want government-appointed administrators running the zilla parishads. Rather, we want elected representatives to run them.”
Speaking at the orientation programme of newly appointed administrators and chief executive officers, the minister said that the government will enact and amend necessary laws to hold the district council elections.
“We are working to build a strong foundation for zilla parishads, so that its administrator is powerful enough to work at the highest tier of the local government,” he added.
Over 110 newly appointed district council administrators and chief executive officers attended the orientation programme at the National Institute of Local Government auditorium in Agargaon.
On the Dhaka City Corporations polls, Ashraf said election of the DCCs will be held after reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC).
Elections to Rangpur and Gazipur city corporations will also be held once the new EC is formed.
He said that the government is planning to create 19 larger zilla parishads and will form a city corporation for each zilla parishad.
Earlier on December 15, last year, the government appointed administrators to 61 zilla parishads, all of them belonging to AL and its front organisations. It drew huge criticism from various quarters.
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