Call to amend provisions of UZ Parishad Act
Bangladesh Upazila Parishad Association (ABUP), a platform of upazila parishad chairmen, yesterday demanded the government to amend different provisions of Upazila Parishad Act, 2009.
The UP chairmen claimed that their demands need to be met so that they could do their jobs freely at a press conference at city's Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) auditorium.
They declared to observe a one-hour work abstention on August 3 and to carry out mass contact programme at district and upazila levels across the country from September 15 to 30.
They also threatened to launch a tougher movement if their demands not met within October 3.
"A section of government officers are hatching conspiracy to reduce power and democratic rights of the UP chairmen," Harun-or-Rashid Hawlader, president of the ABUP, said.
"Earlier, we had different duties like supervising law and order, we had a role in local development activities and running local schools and madrasa,” Bodiuzzaman Badsha, general secretary of ABUP, said.
"But, according to the latest act, we have no work to do, no power to apply,'' he added.
The leaders demanded restoration of their power to engage in local development activities.
"The upazila parishad has been turned virtually inoperative by amending the act,” said Gias Uddin, a UP chairman from Chittagong division.
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