BCC employees confine CEO demanding arears

Demanding their five months' due salaries, Barisal City Corporation employees surrounded office of the chief executive Ranajit Kumar, for up to two hours yesterday noon.

All development works will be suspended if their demands were not met, they announced.

"We did not even receive the Baishakh allowance. Desperate, we started the agitation programme," Belayet Bablu, one of the general section staff lamented.

"None could imagine how we are maintaining our family expenditures. BCC did not pay our salaries but beautification and other works are being continued," seeking anonymity, an employee of BCC, told the daily star.

"The employees' arrear crossed five month, it's a fact, and we are trying to solve the problem," said Ranajit, adding, "The salary of employees come from tax revenue, which is not enough to pay their salary."

"No untoward incidents took place. We're here to make sure of that," said Sub-inspector Asad of Barisal Kotwali Model Police Station.

Over 300 staff did not get paid any salary since last December, BCC sources said.