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DCC project workers begin sit-in for salary

Staff Correspondent
Three hundred employees of Slum Development Project of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) started an indefinite sit-in programme along with their children on Nagar Bhaban premises yesterday demanding their arrear salaries of 15 months.
"We will continue our sit-in programme during office hour everyday until our arrear salaries are not paid," said Zahid Hossain, a caretaker of the project.
"We started our job under Slum Development Project in 1986 which ran in the name of Urban Basic Service Delivery Project from 1996 to 2000 and then in the name of Support for Basic Services in Urban Areas Project from 2001 to June 2007," said Md Abu Yousuf, a senior caretaker of the project.
As the project was closed on June 30,2007, DCC did not give any salary to the employees.
Chief executive officer of DCC in late 2007 asked the WkzOnal CKec-u-j live officers to submit their opinion whether the slum development activities are needed to be continued or not. Every zonal executive officer reported positively, he said.
A letter of the Ministry of LGRD and Cooperative also asked the DCC to bring the employees under revenue sector of DCC but it is yet to be implemented, he added.
"We the 300 employees of the project are deprived of salaries for last 15 months due to the negligence of DCC authorities," he said.
Khandakar Millatul Islam, chief slum development officer, said the employees were working under a project of Local Government Engineering Department and DCC was only the implementing agency.
"We have written four letters to the Ministry of LGRD and Cooperatives asking block allocation to give salary to the employees but did not get any response yet," he said.
The process of bring the ! employees under revenue sector of DCC is going on and a board meeting in this regard will be held on October 13, said Millatul adding after getting the approval of the board they will send it to the ministry for final approval.
Parvin Akhtar Rita who has been working for the last 10 years as a health worker participated in sit-in along with her two children Mim, 5, and Mehdi, 7, said as her husband is sick since long she has to face problems to run her family.
"It is very tough to run our family with the income of my husband who earn onlyTk 500 weekly," said Nargis Akhtar, a health worker, who also came with her 11-month baby to participate the sit-in programme.
Bangladesh City and Municipality Employees' Federation President Md Amiruzzaman and Secretary General SM Mosharraf Hossain Milon expressed their solidarity with the movement of the employees and demanded intervention of DCC mayor to solve the problem.