Dhaka City Corporation has undertaken a massive project to construct 45 high-rise buildings at Mohammadpur to rehabilitate thousands of stranded Pakistanis who have been inhabiting squalid refugee camps for nearly four decades.
The long overdue election to the Dhaka City Corporation will be held in the last week of May, Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said on Friday.
The High Court on Thursday rejected all five petitions over redrawing the areas of Dhaka City Corporation and its wards and cleared the way of the Election Commission to announce the poll schedule. The court observed the tenures of the DCC mayor and the councillors expired long ago but they were still holding office. It hoped that the authorities would take steps for holding elections to the city corporation as early as possible.
A drive to clean Dhaka's polluted Buriganga River is doomed to fail due to lack of equipment and poor quality bidders, according to official sources.The Prime Minister made clean up of the troubled waterway a top priority, but environmental agencies say waste is still being dumped into the river from 42 points including Keraniganj, Babubazar, Waizghat, Badamtoli, Kamrangirchar and Jinjira.
Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda on Wednesday said that the long overdue elections to the Dhaka City Corporation might be held at the end of May even if the court’s decision goes against the EC. He told newsmen after a meeting of the election commission, ‘We are hopeful that the elections to the Dhaka City Corporations will be held at the end of May even if the court’s verdict after the hearing on February 23 goes against us because we will have 45 days’ time between the announcement of the schedule and the polling date. Besides, the Higher Secondary School examinations will be over by that time.’
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam informed the House today that Taka 16 crore has been allocated for mosquito control activities in Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) in 2009-10 fiscal year. Replying to a question from treasury bench member Iliyas Uddin Mollah, the minister said hyacinth and wastes which were identified as breeding places for mosquito are being cleaned up regularly.
The High Court on Monday stayed till February 23 the process of declaring schedule for holding elections to Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). The court also issued a rule upon the government and Election Commission (EC) to explain by February 23 why they should not be directed to demarcate the wards of DCC on the basis on their population.
The Election Commission (EC) is concerned over the security measures in connection with the next month's Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) polls in the wake of deterioration of law and order situation and recent killing of one of the ward commissioners.
Dhaka has been ranked the 2nd. worst liveable city in the world. Vancouver has again topped a list of the top 10 most liveable cities in the world, giving the Canadian west coast city an extra boost as it opens the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Election Commission is likely to announce in a week the schedule for elections to the Dhaka City Corporation, which has been long overdue, said election commissioner Sakhawat Hossain. ‘The commission is expected to finalise in a week the electoral code conduct and announce the schedule for the DCC polls soon after finalisation of the regulations,’ he said. Election commissioners earlier on several occasions said the city cororation polls would be held by the end of March 2010. The Dhaka mayor and city ward commissioners served out their tenure in May 2007.
