LGRD Minister Tajul Islam shared the information on Thursday following a meeting on putting the city corporations in charge of the canals in a bid to address the waterlogging problem in Dhaka. The technical committee will include eight representatives, four from the city corporations and as many from the WASA. Both the mayors in city corporations are keen to work for the benefit of the people and they will be able to perform this task, the minister said. The meeting was called to make this historic decision,” Dhaka North City Mayor Atiqul Islam said. They wrote to the city corporations many times to take the responsibility, but they never responded, said Taqsem A Khan, the managing director of Dhaka WASA.

Source: bd News24 November 26, 2020 13:18 UTC