JS passes municipality bill

JS passes municipality bill Star Online Report The Parliament today passed the Local Government (municipality) bill rejecting a parliamentary body’s recommendation for making lawmakers advisers to the municipalities in their respective constituencies. The parliamentary standing committee on LGRD and cooperatives ministry in its scrutiny report made the recommendation. But during passage of the bill, ruling AL lawmaker AKM Mozammel Haq brought an amendment proposal to drop the parliamentary body’s recommendation amid protests of some ruling party lawmakers. Replying to the amendment proposal, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam agreed to accept it and then the House rejected the committee’s recommendation. So, from now, lawmakers are not advisers to the municipalities but the upazila parishads. Besides, another provision for two deputy mayor posts was also scrapped from the bill.