DHAKA, April 8, 2019 (BSS) – Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokan today announced that its newly included wards will be built as a model town with modern facilities.
“It’ll take a little time to turn the newly included wards into a modern town. It is our long-term plan. We want to build the newly added wards as a modern city for new generation,” he said while exchanging views with the councilors of newly included 18 wards at DSCC auditorium here in the morning, a DSCC press release said.
Noting that there are manpower crisis in the DSCC, Khokan said the city corporation is facing challenges in carrying out development works due to bureaucratic complications.
Calling upon the authorities concerned to remove these complications, he said: “Open the door of services by removing bureaucratic complications as soon as possible. We are the elected representatives of people and that’s why we are accountable to them.”
The mayor said DSCC is running with only 40 percent workforce as it could not recruit manpower in the last four years.
“Apart from the DSCC, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Rajuk are also running with inadequate manpower,” he said.
Haji Selim, MP, DSCC chief executive officer Mustafizur Rahman and secretary Mustafa Kamal Majumder were present, among others, at the meeting.