6 city corporation administrators take office

Six city corporation administrators have formally took office at the local government ministry today (February 24).

They received their appointments from the Local Government Minister and BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

The government has appointed administrators for six city corporations across the country. Md Abdus Salam is the administrator of Dhaka South City Corporation, while Md Shafiqul Islam Khan will serve as the administrator of Dhaka North City Corporation.

The others are Nazrul Islam Monju for Khulna City Corporation, Abdul Kaiyum Chowdhury for Sylhet City Corporation, Sakhawat Hossain Khan for Narayanganj City Corporation and Md Shawkat Hossain Sarkar for Gazipur City Corporation.

The administrators will oversee city corporation operations and implement initiatives to improve services in their respective areas.

Earlier in the day, the newly appointed administrators met with Salahuddin Ahmed, the home minister and a BNP Standing Committee member, in his office at the Bangladesh Secretariat.

The appointments were announced on Sunday (February 22) through a notification issued by the City Corporation-1 section of the Local Government Division under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives.