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300 MP-advisers for municipalities

JS body recommends the bill

Staff Correspondent
Three hundred lawmakers including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Speaker Abdul Hamid might soon be made advisers to municipalities in their respective constituencies, as a parliamentary standing committee recommended the move.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on LGRD Ministry yesterday recommended that the House passes the municipalities’ bill with a set of recommendations including one for makinglawmakers also advisers to the local government bodies. But technocrat ministers and women lawmakers elected to reserved seats are not recommended for the empowerment. All other ministers and lawmakers including the chief whip and other whips will become advisers to the municipalities if the bill is passed by the House.
Lawmakers were already made advisers to upazila parishads, another level of local governments, burying ruling Awami League's (AL) electoral pledge of making local governments self-reliant and autonomous.
Forty five lawmakers elected to reserved seats for women in the parliament however will not be made advisers to the municipalities, since they do not have constituencies to represent. For the same reason, they had not been made advisers to upazila parishads either.
The parliamentary committee however did not recommend making it mandatory for the municipalities to seek suggestions of advisers for running their administrations, unlike a provision made in the Upazila Parishads Act.
It however also did not specify the functions of the advisers, neither did it make it amply clear whether it is incumbent upon the local government institutions to seek suggestions of the advisers.
AL lawmaker Rahmat Ali, chairman of the committee, placed the report in the parliament.
In its report on the scrutiny of the municipalities' bill, the committee also recommended introduction of two posts of deputy mayors in each municipality, one of which will be reserved for women. The post of the chairman will be re-named as mayor, and ward commissioners will be called councillors.
The committee also recommended introduction of a municipality sendee for the local governments' employees. It also recommended giving legality to the municipality administrations, that were elected under tEe now defunct municipality ordinance.
The LGRD ministry C laced the municipalities ill in the parliament as the
immediate past caretaker government had repealed the then municipality ordi nance and promulgated a new one, which also ceased to have effect since February, as it was not ratified in the parliament within the stipulated time.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Planning Ministry placed a report on the scrutiny of the Public Procurement Act (Amendment) bill, and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Ministry placed a report on the scrutiny of law and Order Disruption (Speedy TYial) Act (Amendment) Dili.
Both committees recommended that the House passes the bills.