Bogura City Corporation administrator receives appointment letter

M R Islam Swadhin has officially received his appointment letter as the first full-time administrator of the newly formed Bogura City Corporation.

He formally accepted the appointment on Tuesday (19 May), following a gazette notification issued on Sunday last by the Local Government Division under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives.

The notification, signed by Deputy Secretary Md Robiul Islam on behalf of the President, stated that M R Islam Swadhin, a resident of Maltinagar in Bogura town, had been appointed full-time administrator of the Bogura City Corporation under Sub-section (1) of Section 25A of the Local Government Ordinance, 2024.

He will remain in office until the city corporation is formally constituted or until further orders are issued, it added.

According to the notification, he will exercise the powers and perform the duties of the mayor of the newly established city corporation.

Speaking after assuming office, Swadhin thanked Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, as well as the minister and state minister for local government, for the appointment.

“I will work together with the people to rebuild and reorganise Bogura City Corporation in a new way,” he said.

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Earlier, on Thursday last, a gazette notification signed by Local Government Division Secretary Md Shahidul Hasan officially declared Bogura a city corporation.

The new city corporation has been formed with 21 wards, combining the existing Bogura municipality with several adjacent and expanded areas of Sadar and Shajahanpur upazilas, including Phulbari, Nishindara, Katnarpara, Sutrapur, Malgram, Thanthania, Maltinagar, Phuldighi and Betgari.