There are laws, rules and specific instructions on how a government authority should remain prepared all the time to face a disaster. But that preparedness is often out of practice and they seem to await a forecast in this regard. Such slackness may somehow be salvageable when it comes to flood or cyclones, but not in the case of an earthquake, as the science is yet to advance
Municipal councils must focus on increasing income: Tajul
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DHAKA, Jan 17, 2021 (BSS) – Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam today said the municipal councils must focus on increasing income or face dissolution as the government plans to change the law to this end.
“City corporations and Paurashava follow their own laws. They must take responsibility for generating and increasing their revenue as per their laws. If they fail to pay the salary of their staff for 12 months, we are planning for their dissolution,” he said.
“This is not believable that the inhabitants of paurashava cannot pay tax,” Tajul said while addressing a National Policy Dialogue on ‘Strengthening the Urban Local Governments in Bangladesh’ at a city hotel here, a UNDP release said.
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