Mymensingh City Corporation

Mymensingh City Corporation

Mymensingh City Corporation the municipal government of Mymensingh city, it is located about 120 km (75 mi) north of Dhaka which is the capital of the country.[1] Mymensingh City Corporation a town located about 120 kilometres north of Dhaka with a 91.315 square kilometre area and a population of 17,47,570 – is upgraded as the country’s 12th city corporation in April 2, 2018 while national gadget published on 2016. National Implementation Committee on Administrative Reforms (Nicar) approved a proposal in this regard at a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office in the capital on April 2 Monday Year 2018. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. After the meeting, Cabinet Division Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) NM Ziaul Alam said the new city corporation would be consisted of Mymensingh Municipality, two complete unions Akua, Boyra and parts of six unions from 13 unions of Mymensingh Sadar upazila. He said the Mymensingh City Corporation has been constituted following the fulfillment of all the eight criteria of forming a city corporation.

Mymensingh City Corporation's GDP in 2017 is 62 billion USD

History

In september 2011 the Mymensingh Zila Nagorik Andolon campaigned to turn Mymensingh into the divisional capital and a city corporation.[2][3] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced plans to turn Mymensingh into a city corporation in January 2013.[4] Mymensingh city was made the capital of the newly formed Mymensingh division, which was the 8th division of Bangladesh.[5][6] On 20 November 2017 the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation decided to make Mymensingh into a city corporation.[7][8] The incumbent mayor is the Municipality Mayor Ekramul Haque Titu. Mymensingh has not held an election since being turned into a city corporation.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Islam Ayon, Kausar. "Zero Point displays wrong info about distance of cities". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  2. ↑ "Agitation in Mymensingh". The Daily Star. 2011-09-18. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  3. ↑ "Rail, road barricade in Mymensingh to press for 10-pt demand". The Daily Star. 2011-09-19. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  4. ↑ "Mymensingh to be City Corp". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  5. ↑ "Mymensingh declared 8th division | Business News 24 BD". businessnews24bd.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  6. ↑ "Mymensingh now a division". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  7. ↑ "Mymensingh Municipality to turn into city corporation". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  8. ↑ "Govt to create 10 police stations, another upazila". The Daily Star. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  9. ↑ "AL to warm up with 7 city polls". The Daily Star. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
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