Divisional Meet in Barisal

Municipal staff place 11-pt demand

Our Correspondent, Barisal
Employees of Barisal City Corporation (BCC) and municipalities in Barisal division at a meeting here yesterday called upon the government to meet their 11-point demand immediately.

Jahangir Molla, president of Bangladesh City and Pouro Karmachari Federation, presided over the meeting, held at the BCC conference room.

BCC Mayor Majibur Rahman Sarwar MP was the chief guest.

Mosharraf Hossain, general secretary of the Federation and its leaders Harun Mia, Aziz Shahin, Khairul Hassan, Kanchan Ali, Abdur Razzak, Abdur Rashid, Abu Bakkar, Bazlur Rahman and Nur Hussein addressed the gathering.

They called for immediate implementation of their demand. These include introduction of pension, separate pay scale, improvement of their service status, housing facility and inclusion of municipal employees' services in the revenue budget.

The BCC Mayor, expressing his solidarity with the employees, assured them that their demands would be placed at the meeting of Mayors of City Corporations.