RCC corruption at 'tolerable' level
Claims mayor
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at a programme in the city yesterday said he had tried his best to keep corruption at RCC at a “tolerable” level for the last four years.
He said this after being asked whether RCC was corruption free. “I would not say that I kept my corporation totally free from corruption,” he added.
The mayor was replying to questions from citizens at the programme, “Face the Public”, organised by Concerned Citizen's Committee, a wing of Transparency International Bangladesh, at Rajshahi Medical College Auditorium.
The mayor said RCC's vehicular maintenance expenditure was brought down to Tk 7 lakh per year at present from the previous Tk 16 lakh, when fuel prices were three times cheaper.
Representatives of Transparency International from 14 countries were present at the programme as observers. Senior journalist Akbarul Hasan Millat moderated the programme.
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