Gazipur City Corporation

Gazipur City Corporation
গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Corporation overview
Formed	16 January 2013; 11 years ago
Jurisdiction	Government of Bangladesh
Headquarters	Nagar Bhaban, Gazipur
Corporation executives	Asadur Rahman Kiron, Acting Mayor; A.S.M. Shofiul Azam (Joint Secretary), Chief Executive Officer;
Parent department	Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives
Website	gcc.gov.bd

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.^[1] As of 2018, Gazipur City Corporation had 1.1 million voters.^[2]

Mayor of Gazipur

Election		Mayor	Party
	2013	M. A. Mannan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2018	Zahangir Alam	Bangladesh Awami League

Elections

Election Result 2018

Gazipur City Corporation Election 2018
	Candidate	Votes
AL	Zahangir Alam	4,00,010
BNP	Hasan Uddin Sarkar	1,97,611
AL gain from BNP

Election Result 2013

Gazipur City Corporation Election 2013
	Candidate	Votes
BNP	M. A. Mannan	3,65,444
AL	Ajmat Ullah Khan	2,58,867
BNP win (new seat)

Important establishments

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

References

^ "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.

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[1] "Gazipur City Corporation". gazipurcity.com.

[2] Akand, Raihanul Islam (23 June 2020). "Road conditions are hot topic for Gazipur polls". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[3] "14 GCC staff show-caused on corruption charge". New Age. United News of Bangladesh. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[4] "9 GCC staff suspended over graft". New Age. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[DT1-5] Javed, Hasan (May 17, 2020). "GCC executive engineer pays with his life for standing up to corruption". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

[6] Asaduzzaman (27 May 2020). প্রকৌশলী দেলোয়ার খুনে গ্রেপ্তার আনিছুর দুর্নীতিবাজ: মেয়র জাহাঙ্গীর. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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