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MPs to get Nam flats without service charge

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The House Committee of the Jatiya Sangsad decided yesterday to allot some flats, previously earmarked for the Non-aligned Movement (Nam) summit, to the lawmakers free of service charge.
After a six-month haggling with the Ministry of Housing and Public Works on decoration of the flats failed to produce any positive results, the JS house committee in a meeting yesterday decided to receive 184 Nam flats without any furnishing and decoration. Another 140 Nam flats are still under construction.
The committee also decided that no service charge would be applicable to the flat-users since they were
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A 21-bed hospital with modern facilities will also be set up at two blocks of the MP Hostel area and the rest of the MP Hostel buildings will be allocated for use by the parliament secretariat.
"The committee agreed to accept the flats in their current condition because the ministry failed to decorate the flats due to fund crisis," Chief Whip Khandakar Delwar Hossain, chairman of the committee, told newspersons emerging from the meeting held at the Sangsad Bhaban.
"But the ministry assured again that a letter had already been sent to the finance ministry seeking funds to purchase furniture. If the finance ministry grants money they will do the furnishing," the chairman added.
According to the rules, Tk 600 is payable for an 1800sft and Tk 400 for a 1200sft accommodation in service charges by the members of parliament.
"A sub-committee headed by Khandakar Delwar Hossain will receive the flats within a week," Shajahan Khan, a member of the house committee and an Awami
League lawmaker, told The Daily Star.
The flats will be allocated to lawmakers of different political parties, once they are received.
A member of the committee said at the meeting that lawmakers of India received residential facilities without paying for anything. The same system should be introduced in Bangladesh, too, he felt.
The remuneration and privileges of the lawmakers were hugely hiked only in July last.
Khandakar Delwar Hossain presided over the meeting, with committee members and officials concerned attending.