Gazipur City Corporation

Gazipur City Corporation (Bengali: গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Before its establishment as city corporation, it was a municipal corporation. Current mayor of GCC is Jahangir Alam who was advocated by Bangladesh Awami League. Basically, Gazipur City Corporation is a formation under the local government administration of Bangladesh to regulate the city area of Gazipur, which is under the Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development (LGRD). Currently the minister of LGRD ministry is Sayed Ashraful Islam. Generally under local government, an election is held to elect a mayor of Gazipur City Corporation. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers with approximately has the population of 40,00,000 people in the city corporation area.[2] As of 2018, Gazipur City Corporation had 1.1 million voters.[3] During the 2019-20 session, the city corporation announced a budget of approximately 700 million USD income and 550 million USD expense.[4]

Gazipur City Corporation
গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Corporation Logo
Formation16 January 2013
TypeMunicipal
HeadquartersGazipur Nagar Bhaban
Official language
Bengali
Jahangir Alam (Awami League)[1]
Websitegazipurcity.com

Mayor of Gazipur
ElectionMayorParty
2013 M. A. Mannan Bangladesh Nationalist Party
2018 Jahangir Alam Bangladesh Awami League

Elections

Election Result 2018
Gazipur City Corporation Election 2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Awami League Jahangir Alam 4,00,010
BNP Hasan Uddin Sarkar 1,97,611
Awami League gain from BNP

Election Result 2013
Gazipur City Corporation Election 2013
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BNP M. A. Mannan 3,65,444
Awami League Ajmat Ullah Khan 2,58,867
BNP win (new seat)

Important establishments
  1. Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
  2. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU)
  3. Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
  4. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)
  5. Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET)
  6. Rani Bilashmoni Govt. Boys' High School
  7. Seed Certification Agency (SCA)
  8. National Agricultural Training Academy (NATA)
  9. Agricultural Training Institute (ATI)
  10. Shahid Tazuddin Ahmed Medical College
  11. Joydebpur Govt. Girls' High School
  12. Bhawal Badre Alam Govt. University College
  13. National University
  14. Bangladesh Open University
  15. Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Ltd. (BMTF)
  16. Security Printing Press Ltd.
  17. Bangladesh Ordinance Factory(BOF)
  18. Bangladesh Diesel Plant Ltd.
  19. Ansar Academy
  20. Bangabandhu Safari Park
  21. Hi-tech Park

Corruption allegation against officials

In May 2019 at a press briefing, the acting mayor Jahangir Alam revealed that 14 employees of Gazipur City Corporation got show cause notice over corruption and irregularity charges.[5] In July same year in another press briefing, mayor Jahangir said that among the 14 accused employees, 6 had been suspended, 3 had been temporarily suspended and the remaining 5 had been served show-cause notices for alleged corruption.[6]

Murder of Engineer Delwoar

On May 11, 2020 Delwoar Hossain, the executive engineer of Gazipur City Corporation was murdered allegedly by his colleague. The investigation agency and Delwoar's family suspects that the motive behind Delwoar's murder was corruption. [7] Police has arrested Anisur Rahman Selim, an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation as a suspect of the murder case. Mayor Jahangir Alam told the Prothom Alo that he knew about the corruption of Selim but never took any measures against him.[8]

References
  1. "AL's Jahangir Alam elected Gazipur mayor". The Daily Star. 27 June 2018.
  2. "Gazipur City Corporation". gazipurcity.com.
  3. Akand, Raihanul Islam (23 June 2020). "Road conditions are hot topic for Gazipur polls". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  4. "Budget for Gazipur city announced". The Daily Star. 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  5. "14 GCC staff show-caused on corruption charge". New Age. United News of Bangladesh. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  6. "9 GCC staff suspended over graft". New Age. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  7. Javed, Hasan (May 17, 2020). "GCC executive engineer pays with his life for standing up to corruption". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  8. Asaduzzaman (27 May 2020). প্রকৌশলী দেলোয়ার খুনে গ্রেপ্তার আনিছুর দুর্নীতিবাজ: মেয়র জাহাঙ্গীর. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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