Govt appoints administrators for 61 Zilla Parishad, relieves 323 municipality mayors of duty

The government on Monday appointed administrators for 61 Zilla Parishad across the country as the chairmen of those parishad have been absent.

The Zilla Parishad Department under the Local Government Division of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives issued a gazette notification signed by Deputy Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam in this regard.

Additional divisional commissioners (general) of eight divisions have been appointed as administrators for Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Barishal, Rangpur, Sylhet, Khulna and Mymensingh.

The administrators will exercise power and perform duty in their respective districts until further order, it reads.

Moreover, they will only be provided duty allowance, no salary and facility will be available, according to the notification.

In another gazette notification, the government has also relieved 323 elected mayors from the posts on the same ground.

The notification, signed by Md Mahbub Alam, deputy secretary of the Municipality-1 Department of the Local Government Division, said this.

Chairmen and mayors of the Zilla Parishad and municipalities of the country went into hiding after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the county on August 5.