Gazipur City Corporation
গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন | |
 Corporation Logo | |
| Formation | 16 January 2013 |
|---|---|
| Type | Municipal |
| Headquarters | Gazipur Nagar Bhaban |
Official language | Bengali |
| Asadur Rahman Kiron (Acting Mayor)[1] | |
Key people | Md. Aminul Islam (CEO) |
| Website | gcc |
Gazipur City Corporation (Bengali: গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers with approximately has the population of 4,000,000 people in the city corporation area.[2] As of 2018, Gazipur City Corporation had 1.1 million voters.[3]
Mayor of Gazipur[edit]
| Election | Mayor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | M. A. Mannan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
| 2018 | Zahangir Alam | Bangladesh Awami League | |
Elections[edit]
Election Result 2018[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh Awami League | Zahangir Alam | 4,00,010 | ||||
| BNP | Hasan Uddin Sarkar | 1,97,611 | ||||
| Bangladesh Awami League gain from BNP | ||||||
Election Result 2013[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | M. A. Mannan | 3,65,444 | |||
| Bangladesh Awami League | Ajmat Ullah Khan | 2,58,867 | |||
| BNP win (new seat) | |||||
Important establishments[edit]
 | This section may contain material unrelated or insufficiently related to the topic of the article; the off-topic material is the topic of another article, Gazipur. (July 2020) |
- Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU)
- Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
- Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)
- Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET)
- Rani Bilashmoni Govt. Boys' High School
- Seed Certification Agency (SCA)
- National Agricultural Training Academy (NATA)
- Agricultural Training Institute (ATI)
- Shahid Tazuddin Ahmed Medical College
- Joydebpur Govt. Girls' High School
- Bhawal Badre Alam Govt. University College
- National University
- Bangladesh Open University
- Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Ltd. (BMTF)
- Security Printing Press Ltd.
- Bangladesh Ordinance Factory(BOF)
- Bangladesh Diesel Plant Ltd.
- Ansar Academy
- Bangabandhu Safari Park
- Hi-tech Park
Corruption allegation against officials[edit]
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.[4] 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.[5]
Murder of Engineer Delwoar[edit]
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.[6] 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.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Asadur Rahman Kiron, Acting Mayor, Gazipur City Corporation(GCC) speaking at a face to face programme". newnation. 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Gazipur City Corporation". gazipurcity.com.
- ^ Akand, Raihanul Islam (23 June 2020). "Road conditions are hot topic for Gazipur polls". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ "14 GCC staff show-caused on corruption charge". New Age. United News of Bangladesh. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ "9 GCC staff suspended over graft". New Age. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ Javed, Hasan (May 17, 2020). "GCC executive engineer pays with his life for standing up to corruption". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ Asaduzzaman (27 May 2020). প্রকৌশলী দেলোয়ার খুনে গ্রেপ্তার আনিছুর দুর্নীতিবাজ: মেয়র জাহাঙ্গীর. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 July 2020.