Every year, with its own fleet, the Municipal Corporation hires pickups, dump trucks, pay-loaders and laborers through tenders to expedite disposal of residual waste. This year, more than 800 workers were hired. Two officials from the concerned municipal department told Prothom Alo that during Eid-ul-Azha, contractors usually supply dump trucks (trucks that carry garbage) and […]
According to Municipal Corporation sources, the Minister of State and the Administrator were scheduled to inspect the market at 3 pm today. At around 1:20 pm, an urgent message was sent to the municipal corporation’s WhatsApp group informing officials to be prepared for news coverage. Shortly after this, at around 2:15 pm, the cleaning workers […]
The rickshaw van was filled with rotten leftover food, broken plastic items, bottles, sacks and dirty polythene bags from homes and restaurants. Two persons, a young man and a teenage boy, were pushing the heavy van with all their might. Pedestrians passing by moved forward quickly to avoid the foul smell emanating from the vehicle. […]
(Top row, left to right) Abdus Salam, Shafiqul Islam Khan, and Nazrul Islam Monju; (Bottom row, left to right) Abdul Qayyum Choudhary, Sakhawat Hussain Khan, and Shaukat Hussain Sarkar – newly appointed administrators of Dhaka South, Dhaka North, Khulna, Sylhet, Narayanganj and Ghazipur City Corporation.Collected
It is the responsibility of RAJUK to check whether the buildings are being built as per the city plan, how the buildings should be and how they actually are. Experts say that there are many shortcomings in the performance of their duties. However, RAJUK has campaigned after the Bailey Road fire. RAJUK officials are 'randomly' […]
The devastating fire that broke out during the monsoon at Mohammadpur Agricultural Market, owned by Dhaka North City Corporation, highlights the sensitivity of the capital’s markets to fire accidents. The fire broke out at 3:30 am on Wednesday and was brought under control after about five hours with the efforts of the fire service, Army, […]
BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir believes that two mayors of Dhaka city corporations should resign due to their inability to control dengue. He expressed his opinion that the “unelected government” has failed in public health management and controlling the dengue outbreak. The government has not been able to provide even basic security to […]
The municipal corporation in a statement said that they threatened to block the connection permanently if the landlords of the area did not take proper black water management measures. The mayor lamented the illegal blackwater lines connected to lakes and surface drains in the higher reaches and said he would extend the drive to Banani […]
Zobaidur said the signatures of both a ward councillor, who will act as registrar, and the ward secretary, the assistant registrar, are required to register births, but the 18 new DNCC wards are yet to get secretaries. As soon as he is appointed, the campaign will start in all 54 wards. “The recruitment will be […]
The Dhaka North City Corporation, or DNCC, has moved to register births and deaths at each ward councilor’s office instead of its regional offices to ease public suffering and ease the process. To do this, the DNCC sent a letter to the Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration, seeking a user ID […]